Our Partners
GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE - Brownsville
Since 1953, the Good Neighbor Settlement House has served the needs of the Buena Vida neighborhood of Brownsville. Hundreds of families and senior citizens who live here take advantage of programs at Good Neighbor that provide community events, food, showers, clothing, and help with communication and health care. Good Neighbor offers respite care for refugees released locally by US immigration authorities to pursue their asylum cases in the United States. Refugees get help with travel logistics, local transportation, and communicating with their families. We provide snacks, hygiene kits, appropriate clothing, showers, home cooked meals, and a place to sleep overnight if needed.
La Posada Providencia
La Posada Providencia is an emergency shelter for men, women and families who flee to the United States due to political oppression, natural disaster, and other life-threatening actions in their native countries. Many have endured severe hardships, including poverty, unjust imprisonment, even torture – all involving physical and emotional suffering. Most clients arrive destitute. They seek legal asylum or other legal recourse to begin new lives in this country. Since 1989, La Posada has provided resettlement assistance to thousands of people from close to 100 different countries.
Global response management
Global Response Management (GRM) is an international medical NGO registered in the United States as a 501(c)(3) organization. We exist to bring emergency pre-hospital care and training to those living in or displaced from conflict zones, with a focus on underserved areas. Our network of experienced medical personnel are dedicated to working with and training local populations in trauma and pre-hospital care based on TCCC principals to increase survivability in low-resource-high-risk areas. By working with medical professionals from a variety of backgrounds, we bring a diverse team to populations in critical need. GRM provides the only medical services available in the Matamoros refugee camp.
Casa Bugambilia
Casa Bugambilia is a shelter in Matamoros, providing shelter and medical care for the ill and abandoned, to give them medical treatment with dignity, and reunification with their family and home community when possible.
SOLIDARITY ENGINEERING
Solidarity Engineering is a women-founded, women-led humanitarian engineering organization. Their mission is to apply community-driven solutions during crises. At makeshift encampments and overcrowded shelters throughout the Rio Grande Valley, they provide critical WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) resources, design and construct infrastructure and more.
Catholic Charities of the RGV
The Humanitarian Respite Center (HRC) in McAllen was initiated as a direct response to the refugee relief crisis that began in June of 2014 in the Rio Grande Valley. The HRC has since served over 100,000 refugees including men, women and children. CCRGV provides basic human care to refugees and their families from other countries seeking asylum in the United States. These refugees are victims of past persecution or have well-founded fear of future persecution. Refugees flee from human traffickers, domestic violence, organized crime, gang violence and extreme poverty. The HRC provides refugees compassionate care via a safe environment, legal orientation and general information, a warm meal and water, hygiene products and a warm shower, a clean change of clothes, temporary shelter, medical supplies and assistance if needed and transportation services.
Senda de vida
Senda de Vida is a shelter in Reynosa, Mexico built on the values of respect, inclusion, justice and love. Migrants on their various journeys come to Senda de Vida for a variety of support services including medical support, home cooked meals, a place to sleep, etc. These services help migrants discover hope, value in their lives, and new pathways for moving forward.
Team Brownsville
Team Brownsville was founded in July 2018, by a small group of like minded educator volunteers from Brownsville , Texas. Since that time, their members and mission has expanded greatly to include support for asylum seekers at the International Bridges and to those recently released from detention.
resource Center Matamoros
Resource Center Matamoros is a humanitarian organization that provides a safe space where refugees can access legal, medical and social support services, helping restore their dignity as they move toward self-sufficiency.
Cabrini mission foundation
Working closely with the leadership of the Guadalupe Province and its corporate entities, the Foundation and its governing Board of Trustees aim to motivate individuals, corporations, and foundations to financially support the work of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Cabrini Mission Foundation supports programs that provide healthcare, education, and social services for women, children, immigrants, and the elderly. While each Cabrini program provides unique services, all express an enduring commitment to helping disadvantaged and marginalized members of the community.