Bring Anton Home
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Bring Anton home!
Anton Pilipa is a long time anti-poverty activist and member of radical communities in Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto. In 2012, during a prolonged struggle with mental health illness, he suddenly disappeared. He was not seen or heard from for nearly 5 years and his family and friends were devastated with worry.
Then, at Christmas 2016 his family received word through social media -- Anton was homeless and wandering the highways and towns of northern Brazil.
Throughout the month of January, Anton's brother Stefan did the work of arranging to bring him home, rounding up identification, a passport, and arranging travel permissions and flights. This work has been very expensive and is straining the resources of this working class family. This is a call out for friends and communities that care about Anton, who have been supported and impacted by his work, to step up and support him. We need financial support to bring him home and to help him settle, recover, and get healthy near his family in Toronto.
The costs of bringing Anton home are high. The cost of his flight is $1600, hospital and consular fees are $2000, and a couple months rent in Toronto will be around $3500. We are also asking for some money to offset the costs of Stefan's last-minute round-trip flight to Brazil, without which Anton could not be coming home.
Please contribute what you can and share this callout with those who know Anton.
Anton Pilipa is a long time anti-poverty activist and member of radical communities in Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto. In 2012, during a prolonged struggle with mental health illness, he suddenly disappeared. He was not seen or heard from for nearly 5 years and his family and friends were devastated with worry.
Then, at Christmas 2016 his family received word through social media -- Anton was homeless and wandering the highways and towns of northern Brazil.
Throughout the month of January, Anton's brother Stefan did the work of arranging to bring him home, rounding up identification, a passport, and arranging travel permissions and flights. This work has been very expensive and is straining the resources of this working class family. This is a call out for friends and communities that care about Anton, who have been supported and impacted by his work, to step up and support him. We need financial support to bring him home and to help him settle, recover, and get healthy near his family in Toronto.
The costs of bringing Anton home are high. The cost of his flight is $1600, hospital and consular fees are $2000, and a couple months rent in Toronto will be around $3500. We are also asking for some money to offset the costs of Stefan's last-minute round-trip flight to Brazil, without which Anton could not be coming home.
Please contribute what you can and share this callout with those who know Anton.
Organizer
Stefan Pilipa
Organizer
Toronto, ON
