From the Newsroom: An Army Of Volunteers, The View From Honduras

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published July 14, 2014 at 7:06 PM CDT

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Philanthropic North Texans are coming together to serve the 2,000 immigrant kids heading this way. And Alfredo Corchado of the Dallas Morning News went to Honduras to find out what drives a parent to pay a fortune to send a child on a dangerous thousand-mile journey that might end in failure.

You can listen to the segment weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

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