Please join our crowdfunding campaign and keep us rolling!

The deep desert is hard as hell on our trucks. So today we’re launching a crowdfunding campaign to keep our volunteers rolling through the punishing summer months and all year round. Our trucks are vital to getting water and aid to migrants and refugees in southern Arizona’s backcountry. We hope to raise $47,842 by May 1. Continue reading Please join our crowdfunding campaign and keep us rolling!

Volunteers triple desert area where they offer lifesaving aid

Over the last year, desert-aid volunteers have expanded the scope of No More Deaths’s humanitarian work. In the Arivaca area, we cover a wider radius than ever. Working from Byrd Camp, our home base since 2004, we stock water drops in an eight-hundred-square-mile zone that ranges from rugged mountains to flat, dry cholla thickets. Continue reading Volunteers triple desert area where they offer lifesaving aid

A great holiday gift for No More Deaths allies

cyrilIn September 2014, No More Deaths volunteers said farewell to longtime volunteer and supporter Cyril Barrett. Chances are if you volunteered with No More Deaths in 2006–2008 you met and worked alongside Cyril, who was instrumental in building No More Deaths’s desert work and Agua Prieta work. You may also know his voice from the Border Songs album, which features his heartfelt song “Coyotes of Sasabe.Continue reading A great holiday gift for No More Deaths allies

Rosa Robles leaves sanctuary for new life without fear

A press conference exploded into a celebration November 11 at Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, as Rosa Robles Loreto and her family entered the sanctuary. Cameras clicked and flashed while parishioners and supporters applauded and chanted “Rosa! Rosa!” Beaming boys in baseball uniforms, members of Rosa’s son José Emiliano’s team, followed the family into the crowded room. Continue reading Rosa Robles leaves sanctuary for new life without fear