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A | PASO CANOAS, Costa Rica -- The fleet of buses roared past the Panama-Costa Rica border.Hundreds of Venezuelan, Haitian and Ecuadorian migrants pressed their faces to the windows as they looked out onto a sign that read “Welcome to Costa Rica.” But few of them will see more of the country than the winding roads through foggy glass.That's because last week Costa Rica and Panama announced that, amid a historic crush of people headed to the United States, thousands of migrants a day would be bussed from the jungle-clad Darien Gap through their territories to the Nicaraguan border.The move is the latest patchwork solution by governments in Central America that often have appeared more concerned with lessening the impact on their own nations than complying with pressure from the Biden administration to keep migration levels in check. Regional leaders will seek longer term solutions at a migration summit in Mexico on Sunday.For many undertaking the dangerous journey north, like María Angelys, a 30-year-old Venezuelan traveling with her 2-year-old daughter, the bus program sent a clear message: You’re not welcome.“There are tons of Venezuelans everywhere, and the reality is that they don’t want us here,” said Angelys, waiting in a Costa Rican detention facility for a bus. Angelys, who left Venezuela in October due to the economic crisis in her country, said she had hoped to rest after trekking days through the rugged jungle dividing Colombia and Panama. But conditions in Costa Rica's migrant camp were so bad she wanted to continue on as fast as possible.Angelys and her daughter are among more than 420,000 migrants to cross the Darien Gap this year. They wind their way through Central America and Mexico to the U.S.-Mexico border, where U.S. authorities say they’ve stopped migrants more than 1.8 million times in the first 11 months of this fiscal year.The volume even prompted the Costa Rican government to declare a state of emergency in late September. It was a drastic step in a country long known for its open asylum laws and hospitality.“We don’t have the capacity to take on this flow of people,” Jorge Rodríguez, the vice minister to the president, said. “Aid has been generous, but it’s not enough.”Buses pick migrants up from camps in eastern Panama, and transport between 1,500 and 2,000 people a day across Costa Rica's border. They’re dropped off in cramped detention facilities where most sleep on green army cots, bunk beds, cardboard or in tents on the ground where some say liquid from portable toilets leaks.Migrants are not permitted to leave the fenced-off buildings, once a factory, until they buy a bus ticket. A number of migrants told The Associated Press on Monday that they hadn’t eaten since the weekend. Most migrants buy their own bus tickets, paying $30 per person.“You’re Costa Rica and you have a hundred thousand Venezuelan, Chinese, Indians and Ecuadorians in your territory. What do you do? You can’t afford to send them back. This is the least bad option for them,” Adam Isacson, an analyst tracking migration for the Washington Office on Latin America said.It “keeps the migration out of sight, out of mind,” he added, but passes the problem along to the next country.Rodríguez, the vice minister, said while camps “don’t have the best conditions,” it is still better than before when migrants slept on the street. The government is working to address the situation, he said, but still needs training for aid staff, as well as donations of food, beds and vaccines to stop the spread of disease.Angelys, the Venezuelan mother, was among dozens of people waiting in line at Western Union inside the facility for hours for a transfer of $200 from her husband in Chicago to buy bus tickets. She cradled her daughter as other children played and slept on the ground nearby."On one hand, I see it as really good, you get out of the country quickly," she said. “The objective is the United States, no? Not to stay here. But there are many more that don't have the money."Others like 25-year-old Venezuelan migrant Ebrard Sánchez spent his last $120 paying for the government-organized buses from Panama to Costa Rica. The ride was a welcome respite for his wife and 7-year-old son after being robbed in the jungle.Without anyone to transfer the $90 they needed to board the bus to the Nicaragua border, the family had been in the migrant camp for five days waiting for one of the few bus trips donated by companies or aid groups.Sánchez said they would have never climbed aboard if they had known they wouldn't be able to leave the facility."We honestly feel as if we were in prison,” he said. “All we want to do is work, and everyone is closing their doors on us.”Despite two officials and a dozen migrants in the camp telling the AP that migrants are not allowed to leave the camp, Rodríguez, the vice minister, said migrants are not prohibited from exiting, but that doing so would be illegal due to their migratory status.Other countries on the path north — which have long been the source of migration — have scrambled to cope in different ways.In Nicaragua, migration has seen little control, and by most accounts is speedy.Daniel Cano, a 27-year-old Venezuelan who had made it to southern Honduras with his wife and dog, said they crossed Nicaragua in 13 hours without problems. Other migrants who recently crossed Nicaragua said authorities made them get on buses that delivered them directly to the Honduran border.Honduras offers its own host of problems. Migrants can move freely, unlike in Costa Rica, but they lack basic sanitation and are living in deplorable conditions.Denilson Borges, coordinator for Doctors without Borders in the Honduran city of Danli, said the number of migrants crossing Honduras has created a health emergency. Doctors are treating everything from respiratory infections to injuries from violent attacks. Last month, Honduras President Xiomara Castro called it “a humanitarian crisis” requiring a regional response.Honduran immigration officials issue on average 4,000 five-day transit permits to arriving migrants each day in the southern cities of Danli and Trojes.Tents occupy any scrap of greenspace in Danli. At one park, 48-year-old Suhail Briceño rested in her family’s small tent squeezed alongside some two dozen others. Black plastic sheeting was spread over it against frequent rain showers. There were no public toilets.The Venezuelan, struggling with stomach problems, had been living there for two weeks with her husband and other relatives waiting for her son to wire them money to continue moving north. The U.S. government wants countries like Costa Rica and Honduras to manage the flow while trying to deal with the thousands crossing their borders. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols told media earlier this month that while such countries are doing a lot “they need to step up and do more.”The moves by Costa Rica and Panama come after weeks of pleading for more international aid to cope with migration.Without ready solutions, leaders from sending countries like Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti, along with Central American transit countries, will meet in Mexico on Sunday to discuss migration and what's pushing people to flee their countries. Biden and other leaders have long touted tackling the roots of migration — corruption, violence and economic crisis — but so far results are limited. “We have an international community that is in denial on how to deal with Venezuela, how to deal with Haiti, how to deal with Nicaragua," said Manuel Orozco, director of the migration, remittances and development program at the Inter-American Dialogue. "And these (transit) countries are the ones facing the consequences.”___Associated Press writers Marlon González in Danli, Honduras and Elliot Spagat in San Diego contributed to this report.。 7月16日，莱芜区婚姻家庭辅导学校里传来孩子们阵阵欢声笑语。由济南市民政局、济南市福利彩票中心联合莱芜区民政局共同开展的“泉城福彩公益行——大手拉小手”暑期困境儿童关爱活动在这里温情启幕，济南福彩为莱芜区50名困境儿童送来了书包、保温杯、甜品点心等爱心物资，陪伴他们开启一个欢乐、温馨的暑假。这些物资使用彩票资金，代表了全市彩友的爱心支持和奉献。▲孩子们收到了福彩的爱心物资活动现场，为来自凤城街道、鹏泉街道、张家洼街道、口镇街道的20名困境儿童现场发放了爱心物资。根据活动安排，后续济南福彩将联合莱芜区民政局、各街道民政办，对来自杨庄、和庄、大王庄、苗山共4个街镇的另外30名困境儿童开展入户走访慰问，把书包、保温杯、甜品点心等爱心物资与问候送到孩子家中，真正把“泉城福彩公益行”的品牌温度延伸到基层的最后一公里。▲收到礼物，孩子们很开心一场没有“距离感”的公益课现场开展了“情系困境儿童·护航缤纷暑假”娱乐活动，孩子们在社工与志愿者的陪伴下，度过了一个充满安全守护与暖心关怀的上午。“团队贪吃蛇”的趣味游戏环节中，莱芜区社工站的工作人员与志愿者们一起蹲下身来，和孩子们手拉手围成圆圈。“石头剪刀布！”输了的孩子笑着钻到赢家身后，一条条“小蛇”在场地上延展、合并，最终连成一条长长的“巨龙”。紧接着的“限时筑塔赛”里，孩子们分工协作，搭起积木高塔，也在一次次倒塌与重来中学会了彼此打气。约60分钟的互动体验里，安全知识教育被巧妙穿插进游戏环节——“暑假能不能私自下水游泳？”“遇到陌生人给的零食怎么办？”孩子们抢着举手回答，在笑声中把自我保护意识装进了心里。▲福彩工作人员与志愿者们陪孩子们做游戏，提升团队协作和专注力“这是我印象最深刻的瞬间”来自张家洼街道的8岁女孩小月（化名）是这次活动中年龄较小的孩子之一。父亲因生病不幸去世后，母亲独自一人靠打零工抚养她和正在上学的哥哥。活动当天，小月紧紧攥着妈妈的衣角走进场地，眼神里满是紧张和不安。在工作人员和旁边小朋友的鼓励下，她终于鼓起勇气，小心翼翼地站进了队伍里。随着游戏的进行，小月发现自己需要拉住前面小朋友的衣服、一起跟着“蛇头”跑动。在一次次追逐和躲闪中，她不知不觉笑出了声。到了“限时筑塔赛”环节，她和同组的小伙伴们商量着怎么把积木还原成图纸上的序列，搭得又高又稳。那一刻，她不再是那个怯生生的小女孩，而是团队里不可或缺的一员。游戏结束后，小月在分享环节虽然没有上台发言，但她悄悄对妈妈说：“今天好开心，我交到了新朋友。”此次“泉城福彩公益行—大手拉小手”暑期困境儿童关爱活动，不仅为小月送来了一份物资上的关怀，更给了她一次走出封闭、拥抱同伴的宝贵机会。一份游戏中的合作、一次勇敢的尝试、一只主动伸出的手，或许就是这个夏天送给小月最好的成长礼物。一块蛋糕，一份牵挂活动的“温情时刻”，一块精心准备的蛋糕被推到孩子们面前。切蛋糕、分蛋糕，奶油的甜香混着孩子们的笑闹声弥漫开来。稍后，工作人员为到场儿童发放了爱心物资。

B | 一份份沉甸甸的心意递到孩子和家长手中，不少家长连声道着“谢谢”，孩子们捧着甜蜜的蛋糕，脸上也挂着甜甜的笑容，这个温情时刻，会成为这个假期最甜蜜的回忆。▲济南福彩销售员付怀菊为孩子们递蛋糕来自济南福彩3101005069号福彩销售网点的鹿爱菊和3701005074号福彩销售网点的付怀菊以志愿者的身份参与了各项活动。鹿爱菊表示：“自从2020年加入福彩队伍以来，第一次以福彩志愿者的身份参与这种公益活动，我感到十分荣幸。看着孩子们怯生生地进来，一点一点敞开心扉，话也密了，笑容多了，最后蹦蹦跳跳地离开，就感觉自己一上午没白忙活。平时在站里售票，是接收到彩友的爱心，今天在会场和孩子们在一起，也见证了爱心与需求的链接，超级感动。”付怀菊也表达了自己的感受：“我卖了15年福利彩票，今天真切地感受到了这份工作的价值和意义，更加深刻地理解了福利彩票的发行宗旨。未来，我还会一如既往地干好本职工作，筹集更多公益金，为社会和谐发展贡献福彩人的力量！”▲济南福彩销售员鹿爱菊陪孩子们做游戏此次莱芜之行，既是“泉城福彩公益行”的一次常态化实践，更是一次对公益初心的回望。福彩不仅是一张张彩票背后的幸运，更是千千万万普通彩友汇聚起来的善意江河。据统计，自2022年“泉城福彩公益行”公益品牌创建以来，济南福彩共开展各类公益活动122场，累计使用福彩资金103万元，受益人数达11000余人。