Community Partners
Tucson Borderlands YAVs work 32-36 hours each week with a Community Partner (spending the other 4-8 work hours each week focused on intentional community and building relationships between communities on the U.S./Mexico border). We are proud and honored to work with these partners in their work to support migrant and marginalized people in the borderlands.
Iskashitaa Refugee Network
The Iskashitaa Refugee Network is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community organization that creates opportunities to integrate United Nations refugees into the Southern Arizona community while educating the public, strengthening the local food system, reducing local food waste, and increasing food security. Iskashitaa volunteers assist the organization as their volunteer coordinator helping connect refugees and groups from churches, civil organizations and universities to harvest local fruit trees of Tucson neighbors, community gardening days, language exchanges and much more... For more about Iskashitaa, click here.
The Iskashitaa Refugee Network is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community organization that creates opportunities to integrate United Nations refugees into the Southern Arizona community while educating the public, strengthening the local food system, reducing local food waste, and increasing food security. Iskashitaa volunteers assist the organization as their volunteer coordinator helping connect refugees and groups from churches, civil organizations and universities to harvest local fruit trees of Tucson neighbors, community gardening days, language exchanges and much more... For more about Iskashitaa, click here.
Casa Alitas
The Casa Alitas Program serves migrant families who have left their home countries to escape violence and poverty. They provide hospitality and humanitarian aid, medical services, short-term shelter and help to reunite with family members in the U.S. Most migrants that arrive to Casa Alitas are released by border patrol or U.S. customs as asylum seekers who then need to travel to their sponsors all across the United States. Volunteers at Casa Alitas work with a large team of people to meet the humanitarian needs of migrants as they prepare to travel across the United States. For more information about Casa Alitas, click here. (Spanish language skills are very useful, but not required.)
The Casa Alitas Program serves migrant families who have left their home countries to escape violence and poverty. They provide hospitality and humanitarian aid, medical services, short-term shelter and help to reunite with family members in the U.S. Most migrants that arrive to Casa Alitas are released by border patrol or U.S. customs as asylum seekers who then need to travel to their sponsors all across the United States. Volunteers at Casa Alitas work with a large team of people to meet the humanitarian needs of migrants as they prepare to travel across the United States. For more information about Casa Alitas, click here. (Spanish language skills are very useful, but not required.)
Southside Workers Center
The Southside Worker Center supports a community of worker-leaders building collective power and raising the standards of worker conditions so that members can take part in dignified work and earn just wages. Volunteers assist the dispatcher and team of volunteers in helping provide a safe place for the workers to gather. They also play an important part in empowering the workers to organize for their rights and dignity. In addition, they ensure that the workers are paid for their labor, report wage-theft and help promote the organization to employers and individuals in Tucson. For more information about Southside Workers Center, click here.
Montlure Camp
Montlure is a ministry rooted in the beauty of creation, offering a safe and nurturing space for all to connect through transformation, restoration, and faith exploration. Our partnership with Montlure Camp is currently only available for young adults from Mexico to serve with them for the summer. Volunteers work with Montlure staff for 8 weeks to provide a safe and enriching space for the youth that come to day and overnight camps during the summer. The volunteers are also leaders in building connections between youth and churches from the United States and Mexico. Interested candidates from the U.S. should contact Montlure Camp directly about summer employment. For more information about Montlure Camp, click here.
Montlure is a ministry rooted in the beauty of creation, offering a safe and nurturing space for all to connect through transformation, restoration, and faith exploration. Our partnership with Montlure Camp is currently only available for young adults from Mexico to serve with them for the summer. Volunteers work with Montlure staff for 8 weeks to provide a safe and enriching space for the youth that come to day and overnight camps during the summer. The volunteers are also leaders in building connections between youth and churches from the United States and Mexico. Interested candidates from the U.S. should contact Montlure Camp directly about summer employment. For more information about Montlure Camp, click here.
Community Home Repair Projects of Arizona (CHRPA)
Volunteers work closely with a wide variety of local and national volunteers and staff to provide free home repair to low income and working poor residents of the Tucson valley. Volunteers receive training and provide direct home repair services to a diverse community of home owners. For more about CHRPA, click here.
Volunteers work closely with a wide variety of local and national volunteers and staff to provide free home repair to low income and working poor residents of the Tucson valley. Volunteers receive training and provide direct home repair services to a diverse community of home owners. For more about CHRPA, click here.
Frontera de Cristo
Note: YAVs placed with Frontera de Cristo live in Agua Prieta. Contact the Site Coordinator for more information on this international opportunity.
Volunteers live in Agua Prieta Mexico and work extensively with Protestants, Catholics and people of good will in the United States and Mexico to provide direct humanitarian assistance to deportees returned to Mexico by the Border Patrol. Frontera de Cristo is a Presbyterian border ministry located in the sister cities of Agua Prieta, Sonora and Douglas, Arizona. For more about Frontera de Cristo, click here. (Spanish language skills required for placement at Frontera de Cristo.)
Note: YAVs placed with Frontera de Cristo live in Agua Prieta. Contact the Site Coordinator for more information on this international opportunity.
Volunteers live in Agua Prieta Mexico and work extensively with Protestants, Catholics and people of good will in the United States and Mexico to provide direct humanitarian assistance to deportees returned to Mexico by the Border Patrol. Frontera de Cristo is a Presbyterian border ministry located in the sister cities of Agua Prieta, Sonora and Douglas, Arizona. For more about Frontera de Cristo, click here. (Spanish language skills required for placement at Frontera de Cristo.)
Interested in partnering with the Tucson Borderlands YAV site? Email the Site Coordinator to find out more and fill out an application!
