NWIRP'S STORY     Northwest Immigrants Rights Project relies on 40 employees and 250 volunteer attorneys to promote justice for low-income immigrants by defending their legal status. Employees are bilingual, but the language needs change frequently. The Seattle organization receives hundreds of weekly calls for assistance and it relies on the American Red Cross Language bank to help them.   “We serve low income immigrants with immigration issues and we just have such limited resources, and so many people requesting our help the Red Cross Language Bank helps us maximize our resources for our clients in need,” said Jennifer Brown, associate director.   NWIRP serves immigrants and refugees from more than 100 countries across Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern and Western Europe and Africa.   The Red Cross Language Bank assists with everything from intake calls to interpreting for asylum clients and those in detention centers.   A staff member was struck with the “professionalism” and the “non-judgmental and supportive way” two of the Red Cross Amharic and Russian interpreters worked with their clients. The clients were two children who survived human trafficking and domestic violence.   “The American Red Cross Language Bank is so important to our work,” she said. “Our staff who runs the clinic told me that they could not have prepared their cases without them.”   Eustace Mazila, an NWRIP volunteer, has worked with Red Cross interpreters nearly 10 times since he started in February. He helps interview each caller and build the files on them.   “We wouldn’t manage as an organization without the Red Cross Language Bank,” he said.