After seeing the conditions in which children were held at a detention center on the US-Mexico border, Sister Norma Pimentel established a humanitarian respite center in Texas where people can get clean clothing, a warm shower and a hot meal. In this powerful talk, Sister Pimentel discusses her lifelong work restoring human dignity at the border...

Norma Pimentel, a religious sister of the Missionaries of Jesus, talks about her experience as the Executive Director of the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, the charitable arm of the Diocese of Brownsville. Throughout the Rio Grande Valley, Sister Norma leads community efforts to provide aid during times of disaster and crisis. She...

Sister Norma Pimentel is the Executive Director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley. Running some of the largest respite care centers for immigrants along the Mexican border, Pimentel has been on the frontlines of the immigration crisis, seeing first-hand the complexities of the immigration system and the many problems that lie beneat...

"Hemos normalizado vivir en un mundo de prisa y ante esa normalidad nos hemos vueltos indiferentes" Pero ¿Qué pasa ante la indiferencia a reconocernos, conocernos o estar cercarnos entre nosotros como sociedad? Quizá la respuesta viene aunada a un tema de suma importancia entorno a la mujer, la violencia de genero. Norma Pimentel retoma a l...