DENVER (KDVR) — An organization in Denver is working to get migrants off the streets and into homes of host families across Colorado, and a new partnership is making that task easier than ever before.
Hope Has No Borders began pairing migrant workers and their families with hosts in Colorado in late 2023. Now, with help from the United Way, getting paired up is a simple phone call away by dialing 211.
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Erin Lennon is one of the many hosts the organization has paired with migrants. She didn’t realize the scope of Denver’s migrant crisis until talking with a friend late last year.
“Wow this is not just a little problem, this is a big problem,” she remembers thinking.
A single mom with a spare bedroom in the house, she felt a call to help.
“Why aren’t you doing something? You know?” she said. “Just in my heart, that’s what I was telling myself.”
She found her solution through Hope Has No Borders, which has paired 500 migrants with host families since late last year.