Ten-year-old Cesar said his favorite part of school in the U.S. is the hot meals. While he’s not a big fan of vegan Fridays, he said he enjoys the chicken and pizza served by the school.
In crisis-stricken Venezuela, Cesar said in Spanish, “there was no food, there was no money.”
When he’s not at P.S. 145, a public school on New York City’s Upper West Side, Cesar is reluctant to eat the salads and cold meals served at a repurposed hotel in midtown Manhattan housing migrant families, according to his father, Ronny, who said the family does not have a microwave or refrigerator in their room.
