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HELLO FRIENDS AND FAMILY!! This year I am turning 20 and I am once again doing a fundraiser for my birthday!!
Human rights advocacy is my love and my passion, and for the past year, I have had the most fulfilling experience working with the team at the Calan Institute for Transterritorial Justice (CATRA). CATRA is a solidarity organization based in Honduras and the US that works with grassroots organizations in Honduras to fight exploitation and extractivism, and build political and economic systems that affirm life for all. Our work, and the communities we work with, give me so much hope that we can find community and resilience in times of fear. With threats to human rights defenders and environmental systems increasing globally, it is more important than ever that we work across borders and boundaries to build up the world we want to live in.
We are a really small team and a very new organization, and because of that, the only gift I want this year is your support! I am hoping to raise $1,000 for the Calan Institute this year. This will go to support our current research and advocacy projects:
- documenting regular & widespread human rights abuses committed against organized campesino communities & land defenders in the Bajo Aguán Valley
- supporting regional efforts in Guatemala & Honduras to halt the expansion of destructive Miami-based transnational mining company Aura Minerals
- providing Honduran grassroots organizations with analysis of U.S. foreign policy under Trump & its impact on communities & organizing efforts
I am so grateful for you all, and I hope that y'all will make this the best birthday ever by helping fund our dreams at the Calan Institute!