Helping Empower Community Refugees

For the last three years, families have been arriving had nothing more than the clothing on their backs, which has only increased since the fall of the Taliban.

Helping Empower Community Refugees (HECR), formerly Helping El Cajon Refugees, is a neighborhood group dedicated to supporting refugee resettlement in San Diego.

Please consider volunteering, donating and sharing our wishlist. None of this is possible without your help!

We need your help

Everything we do is 100% based on help from our volunteers. Since January 2022, we have helped over 637 FAMILIES. Make a family feel welcome and safe in our community by checking out the programs below.

HOMES WE’VE CREATED