Our programs
Move ins
Volunteers work together to collect, clean, store and move in an entire apartment’s worth of items for new incoming families.
Families arrive to a turn key apartment with food, hygiene, toys and all the furnishings they need to start their new life. This take days of planning and coordination with all our volunteers but it is worth it to make a family feel welcome and safe.
Food Delivery
With the support of Second Families, we have a non profit status at San Diego Food Bank.
Every Wednesday, we go to the warehouse to shop, put up to 1,600 pounds of food in our SUVs and head back to a donor site where volunteers are waiting to set up a “grocery store”. We set up tables and volunteers help unload and organize the food, then they choose families on our list to shop for.
It is incredibly gratifying to give a family food security, many of these families simply can’t get to a church or food pantry, many have no cars or access to transportation.
Short notice move ins
Before the fall of the Taliban, we had a couple weeks notice to get working on collecting and storing to help a refugee family move in to their apartment. In concurrence with a housing crisis and increased refugee numbers, this became far too difficult.
We are given less than 24 hours notice and sometimes 2 hours notice for a family moving into an apartment. we began creating a system in the two car garage of a generous donor.
We have items stored, organized and optimized to pull out most of the items a family needs to move into their apartment. The caseworker then comes and collects it all to help the family move in.
We have done as many as 6 a day using this system and our muscles prove it
Bikes
Finding a job or getting to school can mean hours of walking a day for our new refugees.
Incredible volunteers spend hours collecting, repairing, storing and delivering bikes to refugees of all ages.
This is a key way they can get to the jobs they need and the education they deserve.
Clothing and Newborns Supplies
For some of 2021 and all of 2022, the families arriving had nothing more than the clothing on their backs.
We provide beautifully curated clothing from tireless volunteers who gather it all, wash it, check for stains or rips and carefully organize it in age appropriate baskets to take to a families house.
Layettes are also created with the same loving care, we love our newest additions!
Thank You To ALL Of Our Volunteering Superstars!
