Our plans and hopes for 2025
Your support between now and the end of this year will shape what will be possible for us to do in 2025 and into 2026.
As we continue to meet with accompanied defenders, we know that the situations they face are truly perilous, that the megaprojects they struggle against often have hidden Canadian connections, and that new threats loom.
We also know the power of solidarity, that amplifying awareness about a struggle can make a difference, that there are opportunities on the horizon, and that the simple acts of being present, listening and caring do help.
In 2025, we plan to get more volunteers in the field to physically accompany threatened front line defenders, bring Indigenous Maya Ch’orti’ defenders here to raise awareness about the impacts of a Canadian mining company on their territory in Guatemala, organize a webinar on new threats (including AI and drones) to defenders, and to follow-up on our recent visit to communities in Honduras.
In 2025, we also hope to see progress on restraining the abuses of the RCMP C-IRG against Indigenous land defenders, the inclusion of needed protection measures for environmental defenders as an outcome of the UN climate conference in Brazil, and the launch of a PBI-Turtle Island initiative that has the potential to link our accompaniment work in Canada, the United States and Mexico.
To support this work, you can donate via CanadaHelps.org.
It is also now possible to donate by Interac e-Transfer. You can email your donation to direction@pbicanada.org. In the “Message” field, please note if you would like a charitable tax receipt and include your mailing address.
Or you can mail a cheque to us, but given the Canada Revenue Agency considers the date of the donation to be the date of the postmark on the envelope, the postal strike brings an uncertainty to this.
While we believe PBI-Canada contributes significantly to the work of PBI teams in Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and other countries, we are one staffperson and twelve volunteers with minimal administrative costs (we closed our office to save money), so your donation truly go towards directly getting a lot of work done.
Thank you for your support.
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