Volunteer with AIDNW - Advocates for Immigrants in Detention Northwest

Dozens Of Volunteers – One Volunteer Coordinator

AIDNW is a lean organization, including just one wonderful Operations Manager who coordinates volunteers to do all the services we provide to immigrants in detention and upon their release, as well as volunteers helping in the office with tasks like depositing phone funds into detained immigrant accounts, organizating gear, and more.

In essence, AIDNW is a volunteer-run organization. Our board members are volunteers. Our committees are all-volunteer. All visits into detention are by volunteers. All pen-pals are volunteers, and all the books, puzzles and deportation bags are put together and delivered into detention by volunteers.

All the people staffing the AIDNW Welcome center who help immigrants as they walk out of the detention center are volunteers, and the people who drive immigrants to the bus, train, and airport all volunteer. It’s a wonderful community of people with hearts full of love for service to humanity.

Join us and make lifelong friends among immigrants and fellow volunteers!

AIDNW volunteers give asylum-seekers released from the detention facility warm coats, hats, and gloves.

Volunteering with Immigrants Upon Release

Greet newly released immigrants at the AIDNW Welcome Center RV for approximately 3 hours in the late afternoon, and help them make travel arrangements. Foreign language skills helpful but not necessary.
Drive newly released immigrants to the airport, train or bus station for a couple hours in the early evenings. Foreign language skills helpful but not necessary.
Be a host home for one night or a few days. You can jump-start the process and contact World Relief by specifying interest in hosting immigrants released into Tacoma from the detention center.

To get started, choose the Word, Gdoc or PDF Application Form, and just email or send the completed form to our AIDNW Operations Manager, 2367 Tacoma Ave S, Tacoma WA 98402.