TeamBrownsville, Inc.

I’ll be celebrating my Bat Mitzvah this summer, and as a part of becoming a Jewish adult, I’m doing a big volunteer project to raise money and awareness for families seeking asylum that are stuck waiting at the border. To do that overall, over the past few months, I’ve taken on projects to raise money like baking cookies and holding a kids’ day out at my house.  Some of you have already supported this cause by buying cookies or letting me take care of your kids - thank you!

Over spring break, I was planning to go down to Brownsville, a town right on the border between America and Mexico, to volunteer with Team Brownsville, an organization that is dedicated to helping out this cause. My family and I would have helped to prepare meals, assemble kits that will go with people when they board Greyhound buses, and cross the border into Matamoros to deliver those meals that the volunteers and I would have made.

Unfortunately, my big plans were cut short due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Everything was canceled the week prior to our planned week in Brownsville. Now, more than ever before, Team Brownsville needs extra funds to help get everything done because no volunteers are permitted so as to slow the spread.

I'm raising money now to pay for the meals that volunteers like myself and my family would usually prepare.  The full cost of one dinner for all the people living in tents at the border is $1900. If you’d like to support my cause, you can do that by donating money here.

I hope you can help me and my volunteer work. Thank you so much!

Phoebe

More information about Team Brownsville: We provide Humanitarian Assistance for Asylum Seekers. Together we work to help asylum seekers who find themselves in Brownsville, Texas and at the Brownsville/Matamoros international bridges. Team Brownsville was founded in July 2018, by a small group of like minded educator volunteers. Since that time, our membership and our mission has expanded with the help of volunteers and donors from around the globe.

Children and asylum seekers are dying and need life giving water in the 100+ degree heat at the US/Mexico border. Volunteers provide water and food to families living under the bridge in Matamoros, Mexico but they need funds for water, food and medicine. 
Please join me by donating to Team Brownsville so they can feed and supply enough water twice a day for these desperate children and their parents.  


More information about TeamBrownsville, Inc.: We provide Humanitarian Assistance for Asylum Seekers. Together we work to help asylum seekers who find themselves in Brownsville, Texas and at the Brownsville/Matamoros international bridges. Team Brownsville was founded in July 2018, by a small group of like minded educator volunteers. Since that time, our membership and our mission has expanded with the help of volunteers and donors from around the globe.

Conditions in Matamoros, Mexico and Brownsville, Texas are very difficult for  families seeking asylum.

Team Brownsville is a 501(c)(3) charity managed by local volunteers and supporters from across the US and around the world. 
 
Together we work to help asylum seekers who find themselves in Brownsville, Texas and at the Brownsville/Matamoros international bridges. ​currently there are hundreds of families waiting in Matamoros cross the bridge (the legal way) and request asylumn at the port of entry.  Many are living  in the sweltering heat on a concrete plaza in Matamoros. 

This summer, temperatures have regularly exceeded 100 degrees. In this heat, refugees need water. It takes about 5 liters of water per day to keep a person from dehydrating.

Currently Team Brownsville volunteers are dragging carts full of bottled water from Texas to Mexico over the pedestrian bridges as often as we can find money to buy the water. 

We are serving two meals per day at the bridge and dinner each evening at the bus station in Brownsville to asylum seekers just released by Border Patrol. 

Please consider what you can give to help. 

Suggested donations:

$1000 - Keeps drinking water pouring at the bridge for two weeks. 

$750 - Sponsors a week of breakfast at the bridge

$500 - Sponsors a week of dinners at the bus station 

$250 - Covers the cost of water for a single family for the expected stay at the bridge of 8 weeks

$150 - Covers the cost of diapers at the bus station and the bridge for one week 

$100 - Covers the cost of dinner ingredients for dinner for one night - prepared and served by volunteers 

Thank you