While we appreciate the author’s descriptions of UIDN founder, Father Frank Alagna, Madre Filomena Servellon, and various volunteers, what makes this article stand out is that the author, Rokosz Most, took the trouble to find out what brings immigrants to Kingston and other communities.
“Of the varied causes for such a large number of people to emigrate from their home countries, none approaches the significance of the basic food insecurity caused by a series of droughts from massive crop failures.
“Many poor farmers and laborers who had suffered through a regional drought which had destroyed their harvests in 2015 had already begun migrating north in search of food and water security when drought struck again in 2019.
“The confederation of charitable organizations known as Oxfam estimates that in 2019 78 percent of maize crops and 70 percent of bean production in the region was wiped out.”
Berit from Redhill/Surrey, UK, CC BY 2.0