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​BAY AREA BORDER RELIEF

We are a humanitarian organization
who serves and advocates
for children and families
seeking their human right to asylum
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world;
​indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
​--Margaret Mead
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UPDATE! March 12, 2021
Bay Area Border Relief and our partners ALAS are THRILLED to welcome several new families who've recently been released from the #MPP program and help them settle into various communities around the SF Bay Area. These are all legal asylum-seeking families from the Matamoros refugee camp, who’ve been stuck in dire conditions for almost two years. We’ve supported them pre-/during COVID with food, water, basics, and legal services. They’re hard-working families who took on camp leadership roles and wish for a safer future for their families.
  • ​For a wish list of basic needs, please go to AmazonSmile via ALAS Ayudando Latinos a Sonar
  • As families settle in, we'll post additional specific needs here; right now we've been overwhelmed with donations and are not accepting more at this time. Thank you for your generosity!
  • We would like to help our new families find and pay for legal expertise (identifying available pro bono or low-cost immigration attorneys) and legal fees; if anyone has connections, please let us know. bayareaborderrelief@gmail.com
  • FINANCIAL DONATIONS: bit.ly/BABRatPVF
See Belinda Hernandez Arriaga's moving video posted on our Bay Area Border Relief Facebook page: www.facebook.com/groups/BayAreaBorderRelief/permalink/2873742539550101/
​​Thank you for your support through this long and horrific MPP program. 
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DONATIONS to Bay Area Border Relief
Tax-deductible contributions to Bay Area Border Relief's efforts can be accepted via Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, EIN# 94-3136771.

BY CREDIT CARD: 
bit.ly/BABRatPVF via Network for Good

BY CHECK: 
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Make payable to: 
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
Note BORDER RELIEF on the memo line
Mail to: 
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
1222 Preservation Park Way
Oakland, CA 94612-1201

BY VENMO: @Lilli-Rey

FACE MASKS

$12.00

#RespiroDeVida #BreathofLife #UnRespiroDeVida #ABreathOfLife

Each $12 mask purchase includes shipping/handling and supports farmworkers, laborers, house cleaners and other hardworking folk along the San Mateo County coast. Many essential workers are being exposed to COVID-19 without any protection and desperately need masks. As of end of May 2020 we have distributed over 6,000 free masks to agricultural workers in California and asylum seekers at the U.S./Mexico border in Matamoros.


Child-sized masks now available. Please indicate adult/child size and pleated or fitted style in the comments section of the order form.


To support the mask-making sewing project, with a tax-deductible donation, go to ALAS (Ayudando Latinos a Soñar) via: bit.ly/alasmasks


This is a joint project of ALAS and Bay Area Border Relief.

Thank you for your purchase and support! Gracias por su apoyo!

Purchase a Mask
THREE-PART SERIES ON MATAMOROS
​by BABR volunteers and USF colleagues: Rick Ayers, Amy Argenal and Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga

An Appeal to Humanity — Close the Camps  1 of 3
The Children of Camp One, Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico  2 of 3
An Easter COVID-19 wish: human solidarity with refugees at the border  3 of 3
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Past BABR humanitarian missions to support asylum seekers

FEB 2020
Two visits in February to Matamoros refugee camp and Brownsville, TX.
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OCT 19-25, 2019

If you'd like to learn more about typical tasks while at the Humanitarian Respite Center, please read this general overview. Tasks may be different upon our arrival, but this provides a glimpse of the organized chaos! Email us at BayAreaBorderRelief@gmail.com if you're interested in joining the group.
Collection sites
and deadlines for donations and supplies have not yet been organized, but will be posted here when announced.

JUNE 19-JULY 2, 2019
The  team served 
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley's Humanitarian Respite Center, Good Neighbor Settlement House, Team Brownsville in support newly arrived immigrants in McAllen and Brownsville, TX. 
NOV/DEC 2018
Collaborative group of 25 formed the Compassion Caravan to send a 26-foot truck of basic supplies, clothing, basic medicines, and toys from northern CA to southern TX for newly arrived immigrants at the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, TX. The BABR team also protested the treatment and demanded release of young detainees in the Casa Padre Southwest Keys immigration detention facility in Brownsville, TX. Team members included faculty of the USF School of Education and San Francisco State University, philanthropists, nurses, students and community volunteers.
JULY 2018
A group of 10, comprised of Bay Area Border Relief representatives plus the addition of University of San Francisco School of Education Marriage and Family Therapist professors and students spent five days in McAllen, TX offering trauma relief and humanitarian support to immigrants recently released from immigration detention.
JUNE 2018
Encouraged by Congresswoman Jackie Speier (CA-14)  to take action, a group of San Francisco Bay Area volunteers in her jurisdiction decided to protest the recent family separations at the border in TX and traveled to support the congressional delegation's visit to detention facilities and volunteer at the Humanitarian Respite Center.
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Thank you from all the volunteers of Bay Area Border Relief--
​Please stay in touch!

Email

bayareaborderrelief@gmail.com

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