Residents of El Hierro welcome migrants who arrived by boat into their homes. Melisa González, 28, has adopted a 16-year-old Senegalese whom the system has declared of legal age.
Gilberto Carballo and Teseida Padrón took in a boy who arrived in a canoe, traumatized and could not adapt. For a year, the couple took him in and after a year and a half in their home, he recovered and came to work as a volunteer.