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hat does a migrant look like? If he has not yet been robbed, he will have an extra shirt in his backpack or in a plastic bag tied to his belt loop. He will put the fresh shirt on when he needs to pass as a Mexican local, or he might try to save it for the States, in order to look presentable and not stand out. His shoes will be a sight, ripped, wet, perhaps not even matching. More than one man has fumbled his way to the U.S. border and crossed in two left shoes. Enterprising shoemakers haunt the tracks, calling out to those in the shadows, offering to glue a flapping sole or patch a hole for a peso or two. The women usually dress exactly like the men, stuffing hair in tight little knots under caps to
Jorge Alvarez of Tapachula (above) makes a prosthesis in his shop for Camilo Marquez, 24, of Honduras. Marquez (far left) lost a leg on the trains, but that doesnt stop him from helping to build new rooms and repair plumbing at the Good Shepherd shelter.
Cenia Lovato of El Salvador, who broke her ankle jumping off a train, wheels herself to her room at the Good Shepherd shelter in Tapachula, Mexico. The shelters director, Olga Sanchez, has been helping injured migrants for more than a decade, ever since meeting a young pregnant woman who lost an arm jumping the train.
Olga Sanchezs home for injured migrants mostly train jumpers gives broken lives a second chance. By offering artificial limbs, shelter, food and faith, Sanchez rehabilitates not just bodies but spirits as well.
Olga Sanchez, known in Mexico as the angel of the tracks, leads an evening prayer service for the injured migrants staying at her Good Shepherd shelter.
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