COMPLETED
Border Programs
Tijuana, Mexico + US-Mexico Border Region | 2019-2025
Programs: Nest Centrito | The Nidito | Nest Norte
OUR PARTNERS
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Al Otro Lado
Three programs reaching children and families across one of the world’s most complex humanitarian corridors.
For six years at the US-Mexico border, Nest Global maintained three programs that met families where they were—in mobile classrooms, community spaces, and legal aid offices—across a corridor where conditions change rapidly and children’s needs are constant.
Each program responded to a specific context. Together, they formed a comprehensive network of support for a community experiencing profound loss and trauma.
Nest Centrito
Mobile Early Childhood Education
A retrofitted school bus that brought a fully equipped early childhood classroom directly to families who could not easily reach a fixed site. Centrito traveled to where families were – in shelters, encampments, and communities along the border.
The Nidito (“Little Nest”)
Infant and Caregiver Programming
Parent educator-led sessions centered on infant development, caregiver-child bonding, and family wellbeing. The Nidito created space for the youngest children and their parents to receive the kind of attentive, relationship-centered support that shapes life-long development.
Nest Norte
In Partnership with Al Otro Lado
Located just minutes from the San Ysidro border crossing in Tijuana, Nest Norte operated at the office of Al Otro Lado—an NGO that provided immigration legal services to migrants on both sides of the border. While parents met with attorneys and advocates, their children had a safe, play-based environment where they were cared for, engaged, and protected.
Border Support Programs concluded in 2025. The lessons learned across six years of programming at the border — about what families in crisis need, and what healing-centered education makes possible — live on in Nest Global’s work today.
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