La 72 Hogar-Refugio Para Personas Migrantes

What La 72 Hogar-Refugio Para Personas Migrantes does

La 72 Hogar-Refugio Para Personas Migrantes is a Mexican nonprofit humanitarian shelter located in Tenosique, Tabasco, approximately 60 km from the Guatemala border and adjacent to the local train station. Founded in 2011 under the Franciscan Province San Felipe de Jesús in southeastern Mexico, the organization is named in memory of the 72 migrants massacred in San Fernando, Tamaulipas in August 2010. It operates a single physical shelter delivering three service lines: humanitarian assistance (food, shelter, hygiene, and basic health services for roughly 150 people daily), human rights defense and migration management (legal orientation, accompaniment, asylum/refugee application support, and documentation of violations), and structural change advocacy before bodies such as the UN Human Rights Council and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

The organization is staffed by a small team of 9 paid employees — primarily Franciscan friars and committed personnel — supplemented by a large volunteer base that conducts interviews, nursing, communications, and donation management. It is a founding member of CODEMIRE, a collective of 28 migrant shelters across Mexico, and maintains strategic partnerships with Franciscans International, Médecins Sans Frontières (for mental health services), the Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano, and a network of over 100 national and international human rights organizations.

La 72 is funded almost entirely through donations. It operates a four-tier monthly supporter program via PayPal (100, 200, 500, or 1,000 MXN per month) and accepts one-time donations, with no commercial revenue stream. It has no proprietary technology stack and serves approximately 40,000 migrants in transit per year from Central America, Cuba, South America, and Africa, including women, children, and LGBT individuals. Notable scale indicators include over 550 individuals registered fleeing violence and more than 140 asylum seekers accompanied through refugee status applications.

Name

La 72 Hogar-Refugio Para Personas Migrantes

Legal name

La 72, Hogar - Refugio para Personas Migrantes

Website

https://la72.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

La 72 is a Mexican nonprofit shelter in Tenosique, Tabasco, run by the Franciscan Province San Felipe de Jesús, providing food, lodging, health, legal, and human rights services to approximately 40,000 migrants transiting through Mexico annually from Central America, Cuba, South America, and Africa.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Humanitarian Shelter and Migrant Assistance Services

NAICS

Temporary Shelters (624221), Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230), Community Housing Services (62422)

SIC

Hotels, Rooming Houses, Camps & Other Lodging Places (7000)

akta.pro primary industry

Refugee & Immigrant Support Services (BPAGAEAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Immigrant & Refugee Rights Advocacy (BPAGAFAG), Migrant & Refugee Legal Aid and Documentation Services (BPADAHAE)

Keywords

• Humanitarian shelter services
• Migrant assistance
• Refugee asylum support
• Human rights advocacy
• Migration legal orientation

Headquarters

HQ city

Tenosique

HQ country

Mexico

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations: La 72 operates primarily through donations from individuals and organizations. Monthly subscription options are available through PayPal for supporters (100 MXN, 200 MXN, 500 MXN, or 1000 MXN monthly). One-time donations can also be made via PayPal.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

La 72 is a humanitarian shelter located in Tenosique, Tabasco, Mexico, that provides food, lodging, hygiene services, basic health assistance, legal orientation, and asylum/refugee application support to migrants transiting through Mexico. It also documents human-rights violations and advocates at international bodies such as the UN Human Rights Council and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) for structural change in migration policy. All services are delivered free of charge to migrants and are sustained through donations, volunteer labor, and partnerships with other human-rights organizations.

Product overview

La 72 is not a technology product or SaaS company. It is a humanitarian shelter organization (Hogar-Refugio para Personas Migrantes) operated by the Franciscan Province San Felipe de Jesús in southeastern Mexico. The organization provides humanitarian assistance (food, shelter, health services), human rights advocacy and legal migration management services, and structural change initiatives for migrants in transit through Mexico. Services include: Assistance Humanitaria (daily aid to approximately 150 people), Derechos Humanos y Gestión Migratoria (orientation, accompaniment, and legal support for victims of crimes and human rights violations, asylum seekers, and migration regularization), and Cambio Estructural (advocacy for non-forced migration and dignified transit).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Asistencia Humanitaria (Humanitarian Assistance)

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 40,000 migrants assisted annually
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Franciscans InternationalcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 September 2015Strategic alliance for international advocacy. Together they made an intervention at the 30th period of sessions of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, highlighting the deadly impact of the Southern Border Program and forced disappearances in Mexico.
• Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMSF has two companions working at La 72 in the mental health area. La 72 expressed solidarity with MSF after the tragic deaths of MSF personnel and patients in October 2015.
• CODEMIRE (Colectivo de Defensores de Migrantes y Refugiados)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLa 72 is a founding member of CODEMIRE, a collective formed April 8, 2015 consisting of 28 migrant shelters, organizations, and individuals from southern, central, and northern Mexico promoting defense of human rights of migrants, refugees, and their families.
• Movimiento Migrante MesoamericanocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLa 72 participates in the Mesoamerican Migrant Movement, a transnational network advocating for migrant rights.
• CENCOS (Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerCENCOS published a press release in December 2014 documenting human rights violations against migrants and the impacts of the Southern Border Program.
• Various civil society organizations and collectivescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLa 72 works with over 100 national and international organizations including Human Rights Watch, Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), Amnesty International chapters, and numerous Mexican human rights organizations to document violations and advocate for migrant rights.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Broad incumbents

• International Rescue Committee (IRC): Global humanitarian organization delivering emergency aid, shelter, and legal protection to refugees and displaced populations worldwide. Comparable in combining direct services with rights-based advocacy, though at multi-country scale.
• HIAS: Jewish-founded global refugee resettlement and protection agency providing shelter, legal services, and integration support. Compares to La 72 on the shelter-plus-legal-accompaniment model for refugees, though at vastly larger scale and geographic reach.
• Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS): International Catholic organization serving refugees and forcibly displaced people through shelter, education, and advocacy in 50+ countries. Comparable faith-rooted humanitarian and advocacy model but operates at significantly larger global scale than La 72.
• Scalabrini International Migration Network: Catholic-faith global network operating migrant shelters and reception services across the Americas, Europe, and Africa. Comparable operating model (faith-based migrant shelters) but with multi-country scale and broader programmatic scope than La 72.

Direct peers

• Albergue Hermanos en el Camino: Catholic migrant shelter in Ciudad Ixtepec, Oaxaca, providing food, lodging, and humanitarian aid to transit migrants in southern Mexico on the same migratory corridor as La 72. Directly comparable in service model, target population, and faith-based operating structure.
• CODEMIRE (Colectivo de Defensores de Migrantes y Refugiados): Collective of 28 migrant shelters, organizations, and individuals across Mexico promoting the defense of migrant and refugee human rights, of which La 72 is a founding member. Direct peer network operating across the same geography and beneficiary population.
• Casa Tochan: Migrant shelter in Mexico City offering shelter, food, and medical attention to Central American transit migrants. Comparable in service mix and population served, though operating in a different leg of the Mexico transit corridor.
• FM4 Paso Libre: Migrant defense organization based in Guadalajara, providing humanitarian assistance, legal accompaniment, and documentation of human rights violations to migrants transiting through western Mexico. Closely comparable mission and advocacy approach to La 72.

Others

• Refugee Council USA (RCUSA): US-based coalition of 28+ humanitarian and refugee-focused organizations advocating for refugee rights and policy reform. Comparable advocacy and coalition-building orientation to La 72's civil-society consortia work via CODEMIRE and Franciscans International.
• Médicos Sin Fronteras / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF): Active institutional partner of La 72, embedding mental-health staff in the Tenosique shelter. Comparable humanitarian mission but operates as a clinical/medical organization rather than a shelter operator; relevant as an adjacent ecosystem participant and referral partner.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/la72casademigrantes/videos
• Xx.com/La72Tenosique
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/la-72-hogar-refugio-para-personas-migrantes

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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