Mexico’s Homeless Community Showed Up For Me — Now I Support & Advocate For Them

Mexico’s Homeless Community Showed Up For Me — Now I Support & Advocate For Them

Editor’s Note: This article contains brief mentions of self-harm and police brutality. Álvaro Quiroz is the first Mexican to be honored by the UN’s Young Activist Summit after having co-founded Brigada 12, a group of activists in the city of Guadalajara that, since 2020, distributes food and blankets to the homeless, a movement that has since spread to other cities, and to Colombia and the U.S.  He, himself, experienced homelessness before being…