The Ultimate Border Project Fundraiser
To meet the urgent needs of migrant shelters in Tijuana.
Beginning August 2019, LA Throwback began bringing ultimate discs to kids in the migrant shelters of Tijuana, and developing plans to teach Ultimate there, in collaboration with local partners. Right now, though, the shelters need support just to survive. Donations to the shelters from local churches dried up when the churches first had to suspend in-person services. While services are again being held, the shelters – which are privately funded – still URGENTLY need your support. Although we are no longer able to offer custom neckies as thank you gifts, we hope that you will consider making a direct donation to the shelter or organization of your choice.
Minimum wage in Tijuana is about $10 per day.
Your donations make a huge impact.
What is the Ultimate Border Project?
The UBP is a multi-organizational collaboration to bring the sport of ultimate to kids in migrant shelters (albergues) along the border, where they and their families wait for their asylum hearings, typically for many months.
We provide discs to the children (thanks to the generosity of our disc sponsor, ARIA discs), and help connect ultimate players with the kids in shelters, teaching them to throw and to play ultimate.
The goal is to bring people together to share the common joy of play and to build community and solidarity. You can learn more about the Ultimate Border Project here.
What is the fundraiser for?
The shelters, and organizations that help serve them, have all been hard hit by the pandemic and are in urgent need of financial support to continue to serve the migrant population. The shelters don’t receive government funding. The churches that donate to them can no longer hold services and so can’t collect money to donate, and the length of time migrants have to spend waiting for hearings is getting longer.
Project Partners
We thank our partners for making the Ultimate Border Project possible. Psicologos Sin Fronteras of Baja California (PSFBC) provides counseling and therapy for migrant families and children living in the albergues, and is coordinating training sessions for throwing, conditioning, and drills in the albergues. SOS Migrantes, run by longtime migrant rights activist Hugo Castro, is taking discs to many albergues and helping us coordinate with them. LA Astra is the Los Angeles professional womxns ultimate team. They are generously supporting the project by donating a credit from Savage to pay for the neckie thank you gifts, working with us and Baja Sunset Ultimate to raise the profile of the Ultimate Border Project, and participating with us when the pandemic allows ultimate players from Southern California to go down to Tijuana to participate in the project directly. Baja Sunset Ultimate is the largest youth ultimate frisbee league in Mexico and has extensive programs teaching ultimate to youth. In collaboration with PSFBC, they will be bringing coaches and Tijuana-area players to join in training sessions at the albergues. ARIA Discs generously supports us with their one-for-one disc programs , enabling us to give discs to children in migrant shelters and orphanages.
Support the LA Throwback Foundation
With our Throwback Beach Ultimate Fest, Free Beach Hats, Nighttime Beach Ultimate and other activities suspended indefinitely, we have no revenue sources to support our mission and activities in the near future.
Your donations will sustain us and help us continue our commitment to civic engagement in this difficult time until we can return to beach ultimate frisbee and bringing you high quality beach ultimate events.