This year the CCDA Immigration Network is focusing on four themes: connection, formation, engagement and advocacy. By focusing this year’s efforts in these four specific areas, we hope to grow together in knowledge and partnership. In the area of engagement, our goal this year is to provide an immersive learning experience to CCDA practitioners.
WHY
Many of the network participants are passionate about immigration, and work with immigrant communities in their local context. However, not many have had an opportunity to visit the US/MEX border to see and experience firsthand the landscape of the border, its people and its complexity; connecting the dots along migrant pathways from source communities, across the border, to their own backyards.
For this reason, CCDA desires to create a time and a space where practitioners, under the CCDA banner, can come together as learners, from different parts of the country, and participate in this immersive experience together.
WHAT
Through a Border Encounter with Abara, a CCDA organizational member, based in El Paso, Texas, trip attendees will participate in a 3 day educational immersion experience. This encounter will be an invitation to listen, learn, and reflect on what they can learn from the border; who they are called to become, and how they can engage closer to home. They will learn about topics such as Global Migration & Latin American Realities, Dignified Storytelling & Ethical Volunteerism, Historic & Current Border Realities, the Impact of Xenophobic Rhetoric on Border Communities, etc.
The main desire with this border encounter is to provide a space where practitioners can sit together, to learn, to listen, to ask questions, to re-humanize relationships outside the news cycle, and to stand in solidarity with those who sojourn over many miles in search of safety.
WHEN
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Tuesday May 28, 2024 - Saturday June 1, 2024
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Border Encounter (B.E.) Programming: Wednesday 5/29, Thursday 5/30, Friday 5/31
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Travel Days: Arrival, Tuesday 5/28 and Departure, Saturday 6/1
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3 days, 4 nights
PRICING
- All Inclusive - 4 Night Stay
- Groups 6-9 - $685 per person
- Groups 10+ -$630 per person
Price includes accommodations, food, educational programming, shelter support and ground transportation during the program days . Transportation to and from El Paso, Texas is NOT covered. Ground transportation to and from the airport on traveling days is not included.
We will need a minimum of 6 to attend for this border encounter to occur. If 6 do not sign up by May 1, we will refund your fee. If you have additional questions, please email CCDA at info@ccda.org.