The Border Chronicle has the perfect gift for friends and family this holiday season. A special edition hand embroidered Border Chronicle tote bag. We have only eight of these beauties, which you won’t see anywhere else!
For the first eight subscribers who become a founding member of The Border Chronicle for $150, we’ll send you one of these fabulous tote bags. With your founding member subscription, you will also receive two annual paid subscriptions for friends and family, and we will send them a nice gift note. In addition, 25 percent of the proceeds from each founding member subscription will go to the group of women who embroidered these amazing tote bags.
If you’re a longtime reader of The Border Chronicle, you will be familiar with Casa de la Esperanza, a migrant resource center in Sasabe, Sonora, that was founded by humanitarians Dora Rodriguez and Gail Kocourek and several women in Sasabe, who ran the center. Unfortunately, due to cartel violence in Sonora, the center was forced to close and has yet to reopen as the situation there is still volatile. Some of the women in Sasabe have had to flee their homes, while others are hunkered down in Sonora hoping for peace.
Many of you Border Chronicle readers and listeners will also be familiar with Dora Rodriguez’s Tucson-based humanitarian organization, Salvavision, which assists asylum seekers and people migrating at the border.
In addition to becoming a founding member and supporting local independent journalism, The Border Chronicle encourages you to donate items and give to Salvavision this holiday season. Dora and other volunteers are doing important work at the border helping people in need. Through Salvavision you can also request to have jackets, bags and other items embroidered which will help these women and their families in Sasabe during these tough times.
Happy holidays and abrazos from Tucson!
Melissa & Todd
Founders, The Border Chronicle
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