Gratitude Feels Different This Year: A Reflection on Volunteering with RVRP
My husband, Jonny, and I just returned from a weekend down at the US border, where we volunteered at a respite center for families...
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Rio Valley Relief Project
May 15, 20233 min
Rio Valley Relief Project partners with Boston University
Rio Valley Relief Project has been partnering with Boston University to create a program of study under their US Mexico Border Studies...
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Rio Valley Relief Project
Jan 28, 20234 min
Reflecting Back on 2022
As we take the first few steps into 2023, we’d like to take a minute to recap the work we accomplished together in 2022.
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Rio Valley Relief Project
May 7, 20211 min
Assisting Team Brownsville, supplying donations to RST Harlingen and Respite Center in McAllen
Rio Valley Relief Project volunteers traveled to Brownsville, Harlingen, and McAllen in service of asylum seeking families.
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Rio Valley Relief Project
Apr 27, 20211 min
Mattress Donation from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Humanitarian Services
Earlier this month Rio Valley Relief Project received a donation of portable mattresses from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
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Rio Valley Relief Project
Mar 13, 20212 min
Rio Valley Relief Project volunteers in Bee Cave collect donations for refugees
Sarah Ash, Austin American-Statesman Chris Kelley, spokesperson for the Refugee Services of Texas, said volunteer groups like the one in...
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Rio Valley Relief Project
Sep 7, 20202 min
Asylum-seekers in Matamoros fear they’ll be forgotten
Hundreds of asylum-seekers are still holding on in a tent camp across the river from Brownsville. Poor health conditions and the threat of k
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Rio Valley Relief Project
Jan 30, 20202 min
Love With Light
RVRP responded to a dire need within the expanding tent camp at Matamoros. We arrived early that morning with 200 solar powered, waterproof
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Rio Valley Relief Project
Jan 4, 20206 min
The Resilience of the Human Spirit
In the midst of the camp conditions and the plight of the asylum seeker , we observed many were very much trying to make the best of the sit
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Rio Valley Relief Project
Dec 21, 20192 min
Matamoros asylum seeker safety in at risk
The violence in the state of Tamaulipas, where Matamoros sits, has forced about 2,000 asylum-seekers to cluster for protection here at the b
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