From The Ranch, established in San Cristobal, New Mexico, to house and educating children in need, to refugees in the Southern California area in dire need of English learning, to the founding of the school SFHA established and maintained today in Sri Lanka, and cultural education and life skills to help them assimilate.

SFHA has impacted countless refugees, children, and women in world-changing ways. 

Beginning with the Ranch, established in San Cristobal, New Mexico, in 1974, we housed and educated hundreds of orphaned children who sought safe refuge from their broken pasts.

We also founded a SHFA school in Sri Lanka, which aims to assimilate citizens through cultural education.

Today, our family continues to serve those in our Southern California community by supporting refugees as they build a new life for themselves and their families.

San Felipe Humanitarian Alliance is driven by a vision of a world freed from poverty, discrimination, and violence that allows all people equal and ample opportunity to develop their potential. The fulfillment of this vision rests not only on the world’s leaders and humanitarian organizations such as ours, but on the collective action of communities, families and individuals alike. It is our hope that the efforts of San Felipe Humanitarian Alliance will help generate the social energy and individual responsibility needed to implement sustainable economic, social and cultural development throughout the world.

San Felipe Humanitarian Alliance will continue its ongoing crusade for leadership on behalf of children and their families – at home and abroad- through public education and advocacy and by continuing to actively develop and support programs and organizations that benefit children and their families.