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Urgent help for Panimboza family in Salinas Ecuador

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My name is Barbara Moser and I live in Montreal. When I spent time in Salinas Ecuador six years ago, I became close to four teenagers and their mothers to whom I taught art — buying all the supplies and helping them with exhibitions to sell their paintings.
Maria Jose, 22, has just contacted me to tell me her parents were kidnapped and her father beaten and told he had to pay $6000us for his life.
Somehow Maria and Eduardo, 19, managed to borrow the ransom money from 25 friends and the parents were released but they are too afraid to go home where the children are. They are staying with their parents. The family lives in a very small house and are trying to mortgage the house to pay back their friends. The father is a fisherman and Geoconda cleans houses when she can find work. Eduardo is planning to study graphic design at university and Maria hopes to study accounting.
My profile photo is Geoconda’s painting of me painted six years ago.
This is the reality now for the Panimbosa family. Please contribute any amount to help this family get their lives back and pay down their debts to those who paid the ransom.
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Donations 

  • Anonymous
    • $40
    • 2 mos
  • Michael Carin
    • $50
    • 2 mos
  • josh Freed
    • $100
    • 2 mos
  • Helen Pinsky
    • $36
    • 2 mos
  • Thyrza Cohen
    • $100
    • 2 mos
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Barbara Moser
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Montreal, QC

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