Every year on December 18, we commemorate International Migrants Day. This year, we wanted to open a space to listen to children in Costa Rica and allow ourselves to be moved by their perspective: how do they imagine a Christmas without borders?
For this reason, we organized the children’s drawing contest “Navidad sin Fronteras”.
Through colors and shapes full of hope, girls and boys shared with us their way of dreaming of a more just world-one where no one is left out and where Christmas is about encounter, home, and shared joy. We are especially moved to know that several of the participants are also migrant children, whose experiences give even greater depth and meaning to their drawings.
In their artwork, we recognize something deeply evangelical: the ability to welcome, to share, and to believe that another world is possible. Children remind us, in their simplicity, that the birth of Jesus continues to take place wherever there is care, tenderness, and openness to others-especially to those who come from afar.
We thank each and every participant, and especially those we recognize today as winners, for gifting us their sensitivity and their hope. Hogar Misericordia, the Teresian Sisters, the Intercongregational Community, and the CCVI Migrant, Immigrant and Refugee Network (MIRN) will continue to join efforts to accompany the migrant population and to walk alongside host communities, trusting that hospitality is a concrete way to live the Gospel and to build a Christmas-and a world-truly without borders.
Now we’ll present the winners of the “Navidad sin Fronteras” Art Contest.
Honorable Mentions:
- Lenier
- Josué
- Mariani
- Ana Sofia
- Allyson
- Jayden
