No More Deaths seeks to maintain a community of long-term volunteers sharing its volunteer apartment in Nogales, Arizona, and continuing its social-justice work in Nogales, Sonora, in collaboration with local volunteers from the communities of Ambos Nogales and Tucson. Ideally, those sharing the apartment will be diverse in age range, background, and skills and interests (advocacy, medical, logistical, community outreach).

As with other No More Deaths projects, our work in Mexico is about responding to the human consequences of militarized border enforcement and the criminalization of the migrant and immigrant populations. We serve people in transit: mostly recently repatriated Mexicans, but also Central Americans passing through the Mexican frontera on their way north. Our work is guided by the No More Deaths mission statement and the idea of civil initiative.

Our work in Nogales, Sonora, involves assisting people with:

• Phone communication with family members
• Recovery of property from Customs and Border Protection, police, and jails
• Documentation of human rights abuses by CBP, ICE, and police
• Medical issues
• Accessing their financial resources
• Reconnecting with family members after separation in detention/deportation

The purpose of the long-term-volunteer program is to facilitate full-time involvement in this work, ensure its continuity, and enable us to develop a stronger community basis. Participation will normally be a six-month commitment. We are currently looking for two to three volunteers for April 1–September 15.

You can view/download the application form in PDF or Microsoft Word format. Please email your application and resume to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by February 20. We will talk to you by phone and give you a response by March 1.

Here are some details:

• Individuals with previous experience volunteering in Nogales with No More Deaths are strongly encouraged to apply.

• You should speak Spanish at a functional level of fluency.

• Your individual role, which we will discuss with you, will need to fit into our overall scope of work (PDF). Special roles we would like to fill include medical assistance (certification is required by our clinic partner) and property-recovery assistance.

• You may be asked to take on some simple “coordination” responsibilities, such as maintaining schedules and writing reports.

• As a No More Deaths volunteer, you will need to act in a manner consistent with No More Deaths values, including respect for persons, nonviolence, and adherence to the law.

• Your time in Nogales will begin with a thorough training facilitated by multiple members of our community.

• You will be paired with a member of the NMD Nogales group as your “work advisor.” You may also be paired with a member of the community of Ambos Nogales as your “context advisor.”

• We provide housing in a shared living space: a rented two-bedroom apartment. Volunteers provide their own food (food stamps may be an option for some). We cover work-related expenses, including transportation expenses between and in Nogales and Tucson.

• We are not grant-funded: all our activities are funded through individual donations. We encourage volunteers to generate a financial contribution to No More Deaths by fundraising in their own communities (some who can afford it opt to donate out of pocket). We can provide ideas, materials, and other support for fundraising. We propose a fundraising goal of $200 per month of your service. However, please apply regardless of this proposed goal: we can sometimes support volunteers’ service with other funding.

If you have questions, please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . We look forward to talking to you about your six months of service in Nogales.