Updates and Events
Updates and Events

Updates and Events

Learn more about how the Latin American Relief Fund is helping migrants

Welcome to our Events Page where you can stay up to date with issues affecting migrants.

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Our Events

All are invited to join us for An Evening with Pastor Ignacio At the home of Howard Haynes and Bill Harris Please RSVP to latinamericanrelieffund@gmail.com

In September, the Latin American Relief Fund sponsored the Faces of the Migrants exhibit at Casa Europa in San Miguel de Allende. Photojournalist Jennifer Moran spent a year photographing and interviewing migrants at ABBA House for the powerful exhibit and invited seven other local artists...

Thursday, December 2, 2021 5-6pm CT About this Presentation Discover chocolate’s history, starting with its New World origins in Guatemala, Honduras and other Central American countries. Learn about chocolate’s journey to Europe and its transformation over the years that turned it from a room temperature...

Immigrants rights activist, Joshua Rubin sits down with award-winning documentary filmmaker, Victoria Bruce, to discuss current US border policy and the status and condition of migrants at the border today. Donate Watch Here

Immigration lawyer Careen Shannon moderates a conversation with Latin American Relief Fund board member and immigration lawyer, Rebecca Eichler and award-winning filmmaker, Victoria Bruce. These human rights advocates recently visited Mexico’s northern and southern borders and report on their experience and their impressions of US...

“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” -Thomas Paine Progressive activist Robert Meeropol explores how original American revolutionary – or insurrectionist? – Thomas Paine, would respond to today’s political unrest, global migration, and climate change....

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Updates

If you’d like to learn more about the lives of migrants, immigration or border issues, here is our recommended reading list: Solito by Javier Zamora The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea The Distance Between Us by...

On Thursday, November 10th, the Latin American Relief Fund (LARF) held its first in-person event in three years. Nearly 80 people attended the afternoon event at the gorgeous home and garden of Howard Haines and Bill Harris. Pastor Ignacio Martínez Ramírez of ABBA House, along...

Five years ago this month, Sher and Gary Davidson founded the Latin American Relief Fund (LARF) in hopes of helping the many Central American migrants crossing through Mexico to the U.S. border. Their first fundraising effort was a concert in Portland, where they raised the...

For several years, Pastor Ignacio has dreamed of developing a Centro Cultural de Derechos Humanos (Cultural Center for Human Rights) in Celaya. He recently struck a deal with a property owner to purchase a 10,000 square meter property not far from ABBA House where he plans to...

The world’s attention—for good reason—has been riveted on the crisis in Ukraine since the war started on February 24th. Millions of people have been displaced, their homes destroyed, and their lives turned upside down. Our hearts are with them and we encourage our donors to...