Photo: Yes We Can World Foundation
Estefanía Rebellón understands being a migrant child because she was one, too. Now, her nonprofit, Yes We Can World Foundation, provides education for children living in shelters at the US-Mexico border. In 2018, with her partner, Kyle Schmidt, she set up a makeshift school at the border and then bought and retrofitted a bus into a mobile classroom. Today, it educates 250-300 kids a day through its four locations along the border and three mobile school buses. Since 2019, it has served more than 3,100 migrant children from 10 countries. Rebellón often shares her own immigration story. Her family navigated a decades-long legal process to obtain political asylum and later US citizenship. Her parents, both lawyers, took on new jobs to support their family of five, her mother as a caregiver and her father working nights at Walmart.
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