Juan Sanchez said he learned early on to share what he has. His late mother taught him to always stretch his resources to assist others. Now, his three-bedroom Bushwick apartment has become a haven for asylum seekers seeking a new home in the U.S.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.In the heart of Bushwick is a Venezuelan barber who for years has opened his Brooklyn home to friends, acquaintances and strangers arriving from his native country.
“It doesn’t matter to me where they’re from or who they are,” Sanchez said in Spanish. “What matters to me is to know the person and help them however I can, so the person receives that human warmth of family that they left in Venezuela.”There were seven recent arrivals staying with the Sanchez family in late October, with six occupying two of the bedrooms and a seventh sleeping on the couch.
Once they were released from detention by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the asylum-seekers, who were mostly men along with some women, found their way to Sanchez’s house in Bushwick. Most became aware of Sanchez through relatives and friends in Venezuela who know him or his family. Juan Sanchez and his wife, Veruska Reyes de Sanchez, prepare pollo guisado and arepas for the group.Ingredients that will be used to prepare a meal of hand-made arepas and soup.Another three men were staying at Sanchez’s nephew’s house in East New York. Over the years, Sanchez estimated that about 40 Venezuelans have stayed at his apartment.
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