YOUR PAGE, YOUR STAGE! Community invites you to send your contributions with contact details and complete description of the images to [email protected]. Select images will appear in both the print edition as well as Community Instagram page @communitygt. — PHOTO ESSAY, Page 10 Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Rabia II 14, 1441 AH Doha today: 210 - 270 COVER STORY ENGROSSED: Valeria and Ashlee do classwork in a bus that is a school run by Yes We Can Mobile Schools, a project of the Yes We Can World Foundation, a nonprofit formed to support migrant children staying on Mexico’s northern border while they wait for US authorities to accept or deny their asylum applications in November in Tijuana, Mexico. The school began operating in July and serves about 45 students. Lessons on a bus In a converted bus in Tijuana, a school emerges for asylum-seekers. P4-6 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, December 11, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.47am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.10am Zuhr (noon) 11.28am Asr (afternoon) 2.26pm Maghreb (sunset) 4.46pm Isha (night) 6.16pm USEFUL NUMBERS Pati Patni Aur Woh SYNOPSIS: Chintu Tyagi is an ordinary, middle class man DIRECTION: Mudassar Aziz who fi nds himself torn between his wife and another woman. CAST: Kartik Aaryan, Bhumi Pednekar, Ananya Panday THEATRE: Landmark Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Le Mans ‘66 laws of physics and their own personal demons to build a Qatar Airways 40253374 DIRECTION: James Mangold revolutionary race car for Ford and challenge Ferrari at the 24 CAST: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal Hours of Le Mans in 1966. 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Career assessments TIME: 4pm – 8pm administered for stream preference, career For more info e-mail at registration@ test, branch preference, personality, atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. multiple intelligence and learning styles and productivity. For more information, 55448835. Short Executive Programme WHERE: HEC Paris in Qatar WHEN: Today HEC Paris in Qatar off ers ‘General Management – The Navigator Programme’ Executive Short Programme with HEC Paris Affi liate Professor Wolfgang Amann. This two-day programme will give aspiring and Gems and Jewels Exhibition current and future managers a solid, hands- WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art on introduction to the challenges and key WHEN: Ongoing till January 18 tasks of general management. By the end of TIME: 9am onwards this session, participants will have gained The exhibition comes in celebration of a profound understanding of the roles and the Qatar-India 2019 Year of Culture and tasks, the opportunities and challenges, and presents a look at magnifi cent gems and the necessity to bridge as well as combine jewellery from India. Set in Stone: Gems and insights from leadership, governance, and Jewels from Royal Indian Courts showcases strategy. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, December 11, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY The bus school The mobile school is a palliative for a crisis that worsens by the day. (US president Donald) Trump’s critics say that is due, in part, to his immigration policies, particularly the separation of families under the “Remain in Mexico” programme, writes Alejandro Maciel PLAY TIME: Students play after class at a school run by Yes We Can Mobile Schools, a project of the Yes We Can World Foundation, a nonprofit formed to support migrant children staying on Mexico’s northern border. t’s a Friday morning and, as Mexico’s northern border while at any other school, children they wait for US authorities They come depressed, with the are cutting paper, drawing, to accept or deny their asylum reading aloud and playing applications. anguish of not knowing what’s going with friends. There’s some The eff ort was brought to life by Ishouting and pushing too, and Estefania Rebellón, a Los Angeles to happen, with the uncertainty of their teacher patiently arranges the actor who knows the pain and knowing if they’re going to be able desks and gives instructions. uncertainty of being an asylum- What’s unusual is the setting: seeker. Eighteen years ago, at age to cross into the United States or the inside of a passenger bus 10, she fl ed her native Colombia that has been converted into a after the Revolutionary Armed will have to return to their places of classroom. Forces of Colombia, better known The school is part of the Yes We as Farc, threatened to kill her origin Can Mobile Schools project of the family. Yes We Can World Foundation, “One day, my parents were a nonprofi t formed to support waiting for me outside of school ‘ — Sandra Rodríguez, teacher ’ migrant children trapped on and took me home. On the way, Wednesday, December 11, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY they told me we had to leave,” she recalled. The family abandoned their house in a prosperous neighbourhood in the city of Cali, and her parents gave up their work as well-known lawyers. “Without understanding what was going on, I put some clothes in a suitcase, a doll, and nothing else. My life and my memories stayed there,” Rebellón said.