Not all AIDNW volunteers are out at the Welcome Center greeting released immigrants five days a week, coordinating their travel plans, or driving immigrants to the airport. I wanted to help AIDNW by using my IT background. I volunteered to set up the AIDNW donor and volunteer database and work in the office keeping it updated. I also collaborate with marketing, fundraising, and community outreach volunteers to make it easier for them to send out newsletters and fundraising campaigns. Although I work behind the scenes, I read the daily reports from the Welcome Center and often meet immigrants who are accommodated at our Hospitality House. AIDNW services offer a unique and valuable lifeline link for immigrants in detention and after release.  Without the over 200 AIDNW volunteers who visit them inside the detention center, as well as those who greet them upon release, and those volunteers who keep the Hospitality House functioning, as well as those who serve on committees or volunteer as Board members behind the scenes, we could not support the humanitarian work we do.