Notes from the Road: Centro Humanitario

2007 is here and I wanted to renew my commitment to learning more about the issues and challenges that face our 121 partner member nonprofits this year! I plan on hitting the road each week to visit 2-3 nonprofits and will post what I learn here. Hopefully it will provide you with some inspiration, ideas and calls to action.

Today I visited Centro Humanitario para los Trabajadores and met with Harold Lasso, program & policy director, who has spent his life working on migrant worker issues. 90% of Centro clients are homeless at some point yet they want to work and learn new skills so they come to Centro Humanitario to help break the poverty cycle. The center serves over 1,000 people per year, placing them in jobs, providing skills training, and protecting their rights as legal citizens/workers. They work out of a converted garage that has almost no heating in the winter and no cooling in the summer. Check out my interview with Harold. Maybe there is something you can do to help.

- Jesse