Friendships For Hope (FFH) started back in 2008 when a group in the Paradise Valley Church saw a need in our community to assist refugees and started what they called the “Refugee Assimilation Project”. By 2016 it became a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity known as Friendships for hope.

They began reaching out to the large refugee community in San Diego, California teaching English as a Second Language classes, focusing on the needs of the poor, the oppressed, the immigrants and the refugees of San Diego, California. Our main purpose it to empower immigrants and refugees to become assimilated into our society, become self-sufficient contributing members of our community.

It has been rewarding to see hundreds of refugees and immigrants learn enough English and gain sufficient confidence and job skills to get off of the Welfare rolls of our community and move forward with college, or finding jobs to support their own families.