Local charitable organization Honduras Good Works will host a fundraising event on Sept. 17 that seeks to shed light on immigration issues. Pulitzer Prize winner Sonia Nazario will give a speech.
Nazario’s bestseller Enrique’s Journey is a nonfiction account of a 16-year-old boy, the title’s Enrique, who rides the tops of freight trains all the way from Honduras to North Carolina to reunite with his mother, who left home a decade earlier in order to better provide for her family.
Nazario’s talk – called “Enrique and America’s Immigration Dilemma” – will be followed by a screening of the similarly themed Oscar-nominated documentary Which Way Home, which chronicles the treacherous journey young people make on the same freight trains in order to reach America.
The event will be held at the AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center (1900 University Ave.). VIP events – including a private reception and booksigning with Nazario, as well as an Honduras Marketplace – takes place at 6pm. The general admission event starts at 7pm.
Visit http://hondurasgoodworks.org for more information, including ticket prices.
This article appears in September 3 • 2010.
