By Francisco Alcala | Home Storytellers Executive Director
It is the end of our first week and we thought it would be the perfect time to touch base with you guys!
¡Gracias! Merci! Thank you!
We’ve raised $1,988 dollars from 11 donors from 4 different countries.
Yes! People from Mexico, Spain, France, and the United States, together believed in our cause and decided to hop on board. For that we just can’t thank you enough, which is why attached to this mail you will find a link to a preview of our upcoming documentary "Hot Dogs on a Tricycle".
Still with 13 days ahead and $3,012 to raise, our team feels enormously grateful and inspired to keep working as hard as possible to ACHIEVE THE GOAL: Legal Assistance for 75 refugees in Mexico.
Over the past week we’ve been talking to dozens of people: in person, over the phone, on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, by mail, Google Hangouts, Skype, Zoom, you name it, and besides raising the number, we’ve also achieved the support of athletes in Mexico and Spain, under the challenge #onekmcloser, to help us raise funds by transforming their kms. into donations.
Over the next 2 weeks our strong volunteers will be pedaling, skating, running, hiking, and swimming, to bring the help closer, by amplifying the assistance provided by our partner Asylum Access at the South of Mexico, so people don’t have to walk further for resuming their lives.
Next week is decisive, though! On March 20th we’ll be having Bonus Day, where we’ll be competing for a piece of the $20,000 dollar fund of GlobalGiving with other organizations. Basically, the organization that raises the most throughout the day, stays with the biggest cut! We’ve asked our strong volunteers to try to focus on this day as the donations can be multiplied.
We thank you again for your enormous support,
Francisco Alcalá
Founder of Home Storytellers
P.D. if you want to help out even more, we encourage you to send the following post to as much groups as you can:
IN FRANCE?
Et si c'était toi?
GOOGLE MAPS CHALLENGE
Combien de kilomètres faudrait-il parcourir pour arriver à la frontière depuis votre ville?
Ce ne sont pas des caravanes de migrants, mais des déplacements forcés.
Faites un don de 3 centimes par km et aidez-nous à rapprocher l'aide.
Assistance juridique à 75 réfugiés pour leur permettre de fuir la violence d'Amérique centrale et de rester au Mexique
IN THE U.S.?
What if it was you?
GOOGLE MAPS CHALLENGE
How many miles would you have to walk to get to Tijuana from your city?
It's not caravans of migrants, it's forced displacement.
Donate 10 dollars or 10 cents for each mile, to help us bring the help closer.
Legal assistance for 75 refugees to escape Central America and stay in Mexico
IN MEXICO?
¿Y si te pasara a ti?
RETO GOOGLE MAPS
¿Cuántos kms. tendrías que caminar para llegar a Tijuana desde tu ciudad natal?
No son caravanas de migrantes, es desplazamiento forzado.
Dona 50 centavos por cada km. y ayúdanos a acercar ayuda.
IN SPAIN?
¿Y si fueses tú?
RETO GOOGLE MAPS
¿Cuántos kms. tendrías que caminar para llegar a la frontera desde tu ciudad?
No son caravanas de migrantes, es desplazamiento forzado.
Dona 10 céntimos por cada km. y ayúdanos a acercar ayuda.
Asistencia legal para 75 refugiados en México
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