Part of a five - person team, I stepped over open sewers in village alleys, crossed roads jammed with conveyances and cows, and inhaled the smoke of fires at tent camps
where migrant laborers» graves were marked with bricks made in nearby kilns.
In the Rio Grande Valley of rural Texas,
where half the students at Edcouch - Elsa High School are children of
migrant farm
laborers, kids are reclaiming their heritage through oral histories, compiling a local business directory, and producing a monthly civic - affairs newsletter in Spanish and English.