Volunteer networks step up to provide health needs to migran

Noelis Guaregua, who is eight months pregnant, wasn’t receiving prenatal care at the city-run migrant shelter where she’s staying, so she set out on a mile-long walk in freezing temperatures to a police station where she’d heard she could find food and medicine. Originally from Anzoágueti, Venezuela, the 31-year-old had traveled for over two months with her family to get to the United States. ...

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