PILAglobal
PILAglobal's mission is to make high quality education and healing-centered care accessible to families experiencing displacement and hardship worldwide. PILAglobal partners with local organizations to establish Nests, culturally responsive early childhood education and parenting programs in migrant shelters and communities experiencing poverty.
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PLAY ·2023 Grants ChallengeCultivating Indigenous Greenspace for LA's Immigrants
The Nest LA Greenspace will be a culturally responsive, multi-use outdoor park on the campus of Refugee Children Center in the San Fernando Valley, created to celebrate LA's robust immigrant community. The Greenspace will feature a garden of plants with medicinal and culinary importance to many indigenous communities of Central America, as well as an outdoor classroom which will host classes and workshops for children and adults within a natural, nurturing setting.
CONNECT ·2023 Grants ChallengeEmpowering Migrant Families Through Education
Nest LA is a free education program for migrant families in the San Fernando Valley. Modeled after PILAglobal's international Nest programs which offer culturally-sensitive early childhood education and holistic family services in refugee camps and migrant shelters across three continents, Nest LA will provide LA-area migrant families with critical educational, social, and play experiences that cultivate a sense of stability, security, and agency.