My Nonprofit Reviews

This organization does vital work that no one else is doing. And the work is done by scores of active volunteers and only one full-time paid staff member. If AIDNW volunteers were not waiting outside the NW ICE Processing (detention) Center on the Tacoma tideflats every weekday of the year, immigrants released from the Center would be lost--there is no phone, store, or bus within a mile of the place. AIDNW volunteers welcome them with dignity, offer telephones for them to contact relatives and arrange travel, and then get them to the airport or airport bus. They offer coats in the winter and snacks and toiletries year round. AIDNW also provides $20 phone cards to any detainee who asks, every month.