SAMARITANS
TUCSON AZ
Water-Food-Medical Aid
*TO SAVE LIVES & RELIEVE SUFFERING
OF MIGRANTS IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA
*TO EDUCATE OURSELVES & OTHERS
ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF MIGRANTS
*TO RESTORE HOSPITALITY AND
COMPASSION ALONG OUR BORDER
*TO ENCOURAGE ELECTED LEADERS TO
HUMANIZE BORDER POLICY
FOUNDING COMMUNITIES OF FAITH
TUCSON ARIZONA
* Community of Christ of the Desert
* Diocesan Border Ministry Team
* Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson
*Dioceses With Borders: Roman Catholic
Dioceses of Hermosillo, Tucson & Phoenix
* First Christian Church
*Healing our Borders
*Pima Friends Meeting (Quaker)
*Tucson Unitarian Universalist
* Ner Tamid
"We call upon all citizens of good will and people of faith to join us providing this life-giving aid and
hospitality to migrants in need in the desert. We believe that respect for human rights, the right to render humanitarian aid under U.S. immigration law and our ethical responsibility to save human lives demand this of us all."
(from June 27 2002 letter sent to David Aguilar, U.S. Border Patrol Chief)
In loving memory of
Samaritan Sr. Renilde Cade
She passed away Nov. 13th 2008
One of her ministries in heaven will be the watchful loving care of those crossing the desert. She will be deeply missed here on earth.
Please celebrate Renilde as you journey the desert.
Photo of Sr. Renilde with her 'Moses stick' and her dear friend Margaret Kish by Samaritan Michael Hyatt.
Crossing with the Virgin
Stories from the Migrant Trail
By Kathryn Ferguson, Norma A Price and Ted Parks
NOW AVAILABLE from UA PRESS
To order call 800-426-3707 or
The authors are all Tucson residents and Samaritan volunteers working to
provide life-saving water and medical
aid to travelers in the desert.
Over the past ten years, more than
4000 people have died while crossing
the Arizona desert to find jobs, join
families or start new lives. Other
migrants tell of the corpses they pass--bodies that are never recovered
or counted. "Crossing with the Virgin' collects stories heard from migrants about these trecherous treks --firsthand accounts told to volunteers for the Samaritans, a
humanitarian goup that seeks to prevent such unnecessary deaths by
providing these travelers with medical aid, food and water.
