Friday, August 3, 2012

Bienvenidos a Vida en Voz Alta

"Vida en Voz Alta" is Spanish for "Life Out Loud." 
This is a blog that will try to share some of the different experiences and stories I run across as I live and work among the local immigrant and migrant populations in South-Central Pennsylvania. These stories are from a largely Spanish-speaking population, though there will be characters from Haiti, Pakistan, and many other places that take the stage from time to time. 

The goals of this blog are three-fold. In no particular order of importance, they are as follows:
  •  to give you, dear reader, the chance to be a witness to a whole world that you might not otherwise have any idea exists.
  • to give a voice to the joy, grief, struggles, and triumphs of a community that has been largely unheard.
  • to give us a safe place to think and wrestle with some very hard questions that may be raised as a result of some of the stories we will share.
I hope you will embark on this journey with me, and hopefully, we may all end up wiser, braver, and more compassionate then we were before.

Vaya con Dios,
Peregrin

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