The situation is further complicated by disability’s intersections with other identities, which make certain kids more vulnerable than others. Black childrenare more likelyto go through school with untreated disabilitiesand Earlier this year, CNN reported that Besosa and other organizers helped restore 60 farms in Puerto Rico. While this kind of work is strenuous, Besosa said it is worthwhile for those who seek to make a positive change in people’s lives. “I do the work I do because my life and happiness depend on it. It is really hard to allow ourselves to take control of our time. Our generation was born in debt, injustices, severe climate changes, and a lot of messages coming at us from so many directions. Many people get involved in causes because they are fed up, because their families and communities are in need, and because they actually don’t have a support system, so they start their own. You are not alone; that is the thing. There are others who want or need the same things. It is a matter of reaching each other.” Clickhereto learn more about how you can help Puerto Rico.Anabel Hernández, MexicoJournalist that give all children a chance to thrive — such as developing early warning screenings to identify and treat disabilities, increasing the number of school counselors, and implementing effective trainings to combat racial and disability bias among educators. “It ties directly into the broader tools and tactics they use, which is a combination of disinformation, duplicity, conspiracy theories, and straight-up hate and violence,” Spitalnick says. “And so the confluence of all of the events of 2020 — from the pandemic to the reckoning that we're finally having on racial justice — is in some ways a perfect storm that has allowed these extremists to try to further their conspiracies, their disinformation, their violence.”