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Humane Borders Delivering Water In The Desert
Ajo Samaritans
The Ajo Samaritans are people of conscience continuing the historical work of providing humanitarian aid to desert travelers in the Ajo, Arizona area. Their mission is to relieve suffering and save lives of people crossing Arizona's desert.
Arizona Justice For Our Neighbors
AZJFON provides legal services, education and advocacy for immigrants on both side of the border.
Border Community Alliance
The Border Community Alliance offers access to the rich heritage and great potential synergy to be found in the Arizona and Sonoran borderlands. Activities include education, research, cultural exchange, cross-border tours, leadership development and advocacy for social welfare in partnership with FESAC, a Sonoran non-governmental organization.
BorderLinks
BorderLinks is a nonprofit educational organization based in Tucson, Arizona that connects people to the reality of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and immigrant communities in the United States.
Casa de la Misericordia y de Todas las Naciones
(House of Mercy and of All Nations)
Casa de Misericordia in Nogales, Sonora is a safe and nurturing space for women and families seeking asylum in the United States. Residents explore, learn and use their skills together to make this community a home.
Colibri Center for Human Rights
The Colibrí Center for Human Rights is a nonprofit based in Tucson, Arizona. They work with families, forensic scientists and humanitarians to find missing and disappeared persons. They work in all border states and Mexico. They are perhaps best known for their Missing Migrant Project, which connects medical examiner data for missing and unidentified migrants with families.
Derechos Humanos
Derechos Humanos is a grassroots organization promoting the human and civil rights of all migrants regardless of their immigration status. They fight the militarization of the southern border and combat the discrimination and human rights abuses of citizens and non-citizens alike.
Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
The Florence Project provides legal services, social services, education and advocacy to immigrants in detention and facing potential deportation. They work on both sides of the border.
Humane Borders
Humane Borders, founded in 2000, offers humanitarian assistance to those in need through the deployment of emergency water stations on routes known to be used by migrants coming north through our desert. Their sole mission is to take death out of the immigration equation.
Keep Tucson Together
Keep Tucson Together (KTT) offers legal clinics in Tucson one weekday evening and alternate Saturdays. Pro-bono lawyers and volunteers help with applications for asylum, bond packets, 42B Cancellation of Removal and citizenship applications. Spanish or legal training is not required.
Kino Border Initiative (KBI)
KBI was inaugurated in 2009 as a binational organization. Its purpose is to promote migration with dignity. KBI operates the Migrant Aid Center in Nogales, Sonora. Its focus includes: equity and wellness, migrant integration, local hospitality and migration policy change. El Comedor (KINO Dining Hall) provides two meals a day to migrant men, women and children deported, passing through Nogales or awaiting asylum.
No More Deaths
No More Deaths, started in 2004, is a humanitarian activist organization dedicated to stopping migrant deaths in the desert. They enact their principles with direct work in the desert and with research leading to analyses of the deadly consequences of existing immigration policy and practice.
People Helping People
People Helping People (PHP) is a grassroots group in Arivaca, Arizona. Formed primarily to assist all local residents in providing multiple kinds of humanitarian support, PHP also provides direct aid. It staffs and maintains an office in downtown Arivaca.
Salvavision
Salvavision provides aid and support to asylum seekers and those who have been deported on both sides of the border.
Sierra Club Borderlands
Part of the Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club, the Borderlands group takes a strong stance against border policies that cause environmental degradation. They seek to restore and protect the borderlands that have been damaged by misguided border policies.
Tucson Samaritans
Samaritans are people of faith and conscience who are responding directly and pragmatically to the crisis at the U.S. and Mexico border. Tucson Samaritans are a diverse volunteer group, united in their desire to relieve suffering among migrants regardless of status and to honor human dignity.
Voices From The Border
Voices from the Border was formed in 2017 in Patagonia, Arizona. It is based on the values of justice, compassion and human dignity. Its mission uniquely combines humanitarian aid to migrants in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico with art-centered creative activism and advocacy in support of migration on the US side of the border.
The Ajo Samaritans are people of conscience continuing the historical work of providing humanitarian aid to desert travelers in the Ajo, Arizona area. Their mission is to relieve suffering and save lives of people crossing Arizona's desert.
Arizona Justice For Our Neighbors
AZJFON provides legal services, education and advocacy for immigrants on both side of the border.
Border Community Alliance
The Border Community Alliance offers access to the rich heritage and great potential synergy to be found in the Arizona and Sonoran borderlands. Activities include education, research, cultural exchange, cross-border tours, leadership development and advocacy for social welfare in partnership with FESAC, a Sonoran non-governmental organization.
BorderLinks
BorderLinks is a nonprofit educational organization based in Tucson, Arizona that connects people to the reality of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and immigrant communities in the United States.
Casa de la Misericordia y de Todas las Naciones
(House of Mercy and of All Nations)
Casa de Misericordia in Nogales, Sonora is a safe and nurturing space for women and families seeking asylum in the United States. Residents explore, learn and use their skills together to make this community a home.
Colibri Center for Human Rights
The Colibrí Center for Human Rights is a nonprofit based in Tucson, Arizona. They work with families, forensic scientists and humanitarians to find missing and disappeared persons. They work in all border states and Mexico. They are perhaps best known for their Missing Migrant Project, which connects medical examiner data for missing and unidentified migrants with families.
Derechos Humanos
Derechos Humanos is a grassroots organization promoting the human and civil rights of all migrants regardless of their immigration status. They fight the militarization of the southern border and combat the discrimination and human rights abuses of citizens and non-citizens alike.
Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
The Florence Project provides legal services, social services, education and advocacy to immigrants in detention and facing potential deportation. They work on both sides of the border.
Humane Borders
Humane Borders, founded in 2000, offers humanitarian assistance to those in need through the deployment of emergency water stations on routes known to be used by migrants coming north through our desert. Their sole mission is to take death out of the immigration equation.
Keep Tucson Together
Keep Tucson Together (KTT) offers legal clinics in Tucson one weekday evening and alternate Saturdays. Pro-bono lawyers and volunteers help with applications for asylum, bond packets, 42B Cancellation of Removal and citizenship applications. Spanish or legal training is not required.
Kino Border Initiative (KBI)
KBI was inaugurated in 2009 as a binational organization. Its purpose is to promote migration with dignity. KBI operates the Migrant Aid Center in Nogales, Sonora. Its focus includes: equity and wellness, migrant integration, local hospitality and migration policy change. El Comedor (KINO Dining Hall) provides two meals a day to migrant men, women and children deported, passing through Nogales or awaiting asylum.
No More Deaths
No More Deaths, started in 2004, is a humanitarian activist organization dedicated to stopping migrant deaths in the desert. They enact their principles with direct work in the desert and with research leading to analyses of the deadly consequences of existing immigration policy and practice.
People Helping People
People Helping People (PHP) is a grassroots group in Arivaca, Arizona. Formed primarily to assist all local residents in providing multiple kinds of humanitarian support, PHP also provides direct aid. It staffs and maintains an office in downtown Arivaca.
Salvavision
Salvavision provides aid and support to asylum seekers and those who have been deported on both sides of the border.
Sierra Club Borderlands
Part of the Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club, the Borderlands group takes a strong stance against border policies that cause environmental degradation. They seek to restore and protect the borderlands that have been damaged by misguided border policies.
Tucson Samaritans
Samaritans are people of faith and conscience who are responding directly and pragmatically to the crisis at the U.S. and Mexico border. Tucson Samaritans are a diverse volunteer group, united in their desire to relieve suffering among migrants regardless of status and to honor human dignity.
Voices From The Border
Voices from the Border was formed in 2017 in Patagonia, Arizona. It is based on the values of justice, compassion and human dignity. Its mission uniquely combines humanitarian aid to migrants in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico with art-centered creative activism and advocacy in support of migration on the US side of the border.