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El Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores (El Centro) is Denver’s first day laborer organization, organized to defend the human rights of day laborers. In 1988, an injured day laborer was found abandoned on the street with serious brain damage. He had fallen off a roof and his employer, who picked up the worker on a street corner, abandoned him in the dark of night to avoid responsibility for his injuries. Concerned with such worker exploitation and the dangerous working environment that Denver’s immigrant day laborers faced as they sought day-to-day work off of street corners, numerous community supporters came together to create a safe indoor place for day laborers. As a result, a run-down warehouse space was rehabilitated by workers themselves and El Centro opened its doors on June 1, 2002. In 2007, El Centro celebrated its 5th Anniversary by re-opening its newly-renovated building.

El Centro is unique in that it combines opportunities to improve self-sufficiency with a strong focus on community organizing to improve and defend the rights of workers, immigrants, and women, and to advocate for economic justice. El Centro offers an employment program, a women's project, job skills training, ESL and computer classes, and a legal clinic to protect workers from wage exploitation. All workers receive trainings regarding their rights and are leaders in organizing campaigns for worker/immigrant rights and economic justice, from the local to national levels, through our Community Organizing and Public Advocacy programs.

You can make a secure, online donation to the work of El Centro Humanitario by going to our website and clicking on the "Donate Now" button. Thank you!