For five decades, Via International has walked alongside grassroots leaders from San Diego to Tijuana, nurturing community-led solutions in nutrition, microfinance, cultural arts, and migration.

Like many nonprofits, Via is navigating a challenging season, but even in the face of these realities, we are finding ways to adapt, streamlining operations and making thoughtful adjustments so our programs on both sides of the border continue to thrive. This moment calls for resilience and creativity, and that is exactly how we are moving forward.

Today we launch 50 Strong—a fundraising push to ensure Via is ready to meet the challenges of today and the opportunities that abound in the 50 years ahead.

Your gift today will:

🎨 Keep Somos La Voz free for youth exploring art, music, and identity
🍞 Build Pan y Paz opportunities to secure wholesale accounts and continue culinary training
🌱 Power nutrition, microcredit, and permaculture for women in Baja
🏠 Support Comunidad de Luz, a new shelter for migrant women and children
💪 And much more…

Let’s raise $50,000 to keep this work alive.
Donate Now

This is more than a donation. It’s an investment in dignity, resilience, and hope.

Donate Now and become part of Via’s next 50 years.

Via International was established 50 years ago, as Los Niños, a direct aid organization responding to the needs of impoverished children living in the outskirts of Tijuana and Mexicali. This direct aid model served an immediate purpose but fostered dependency. To have greater impact, the organization developed programming to offer people the tools and opportunities for personal, educational and economic development that would in turn, benefit their families. Our programs in Mexico, focused on family health, food security, economic stability and leadership education are coordinated though our sister organization "Los Niños de Baja California." Since 2012, Via has focused its efforts in building cross border relationships and in developing similarly focused programs in and around the Logan Heights neighborhood of San Diego. Our mission remains the empowerment of local leaders and support of civic engagement that unites community members and volunteers through community development programming.

50 Strong: Via International's Call to Community.

By Via International

50 Strong: Via International's Call to Community.

Celebrating 50 years of cross-border impact. Investing in the future.