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ADOPT A WATER STATION 

Dear Friends of Humane Borders,


Now you can adopt a Humane Borders water station!  We believe that water is a human right and our 55-gallon barrels in Arizona's Sonoran Desert save lives. Your generous donation covers expenses of maintaining a station (water, fuel, flags, and supplies) for one year. About half of our stations have been adopted, and our goal is to find sponsors for all of them to defray our operating costs. Please consider adopting a station today! Our EIN# is 80-5033532.

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WHO WE ARE and what we do

Humane Borders operates a series of dozens of permitted water stations in the Sonoran Desert, along the Arizona/Mexico border wall and routes used by migrants making the perilous journey here on foot. Our primary mission is to save desperate people from death by dehydration and exposure, while also working to create a more just and humane border. Since 2000, more than 4,300 men, women, and children have died in Arizona while fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries. Many more individuals go missing and are never found. 


Humane Borders works with government and private land owners and managers to make water and other lifesaving resources available to migrants, families seeking asylum, and anyone who finds themselves in the unforgiving Arizona desert with no water.  Our water stations consist of 55-gallon blue barrels with a 30-foot blue flag that's visible for miles, with blue as the universal symbol for water.


Founded in the summer of 2000, Humane Borders, Inc. is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works with the support of hundreds of volunteers, Pima County, and the City of Tucson. Our focus is humanitarian assistance and reducing death and suffering in the borderlands. Donations to Humane Borders are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Funding for our lifesaving work comes primarily from individual donors, religious groups, and other nonprofit organizations.   


Water is life, and no one should die because they don't have clean, safe drinking water.  Join us in putting humanity before politics.

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As of October 2024, 4,300 migrants have died while crossing the vast Arizona Sonoran Desert. Many more haven't been found.

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OUR MISSION AND VALUES

The mission of Humane Borders is to prevent deaths in the desert and to create a more just and humane border.


Our core values are  compassion, safety, integrity, teamwork, and inclusion.




Please join us in co-creating a brighter future in the borderlands

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