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Esperanza Hoy: one year of memories

Yesterday was a long moving day, and the last day of the shelter Esperanza Hoy. After a year of opening, it was time to move on and to fill other needs with a new project to be announced very soon. In a year, the shelter welcomed hundreds and hundreds of caminantes per months, stopping by for a meal, a place …

Story of Douglas’s Shelter

Talking with Douglas, the conversation can easily go on for hours. The first time we met, he told me about the large library he holds inside boxes from antique books that he collected over the years. It was even more fascinating to listen about his journey as a shy boy to a dedicated and confident social worker, from military service …

Fleeing from Venezuela to opening their restaurant in Pamplona: the inspiring story of Maria and Reiner

Brodie Hopkins, a photographer and reporter from Australia, spent a week with us last October and made a documentary about our organization and projects. In this article, he chose to tell the story of Maria and Reiner, Venezuelan restaurant owners in Pamplona with whom OTGI has been working for a long time. Since last April, we also started a language …

July Fundraiser

Two of our volunteers, Tabatha and Jenny, have created a fundraiser to raise money to buy clothes and shoes for caminantes (refugees). This can often be life-saving if they don’t have sufficient warm clothing for the freezing temperatures.