Honduras Fundraising Campaign 2025:
Safety for Those Who Stay
We are writing to ask for your help. It is for a fundraising campaign we are calling Safety for Those Who Stay. There is some urgency to this request because women in Honduras are in danger.
As a Mercy Associate from Chicago, I was able to travel to Honduras with a delegation from the Share Foundation a year ago where we met with Mercy Associate, Nelly del Cid from Honduras. In May of last year Nelly toured several cities in the US including Chicago. While she was in Chicago a group of Chicago Mercy Associates asked Nelly if there is a way the Associates here could work with the Associates in Honduras. We learned that the Women's Forum, Foro de Mujeres, needed to buy or build a space for their offices and for living space for women in danger or are being abused. Several times they have been asked to leave office space or been evicted because the landlord has been harassed for allowing the women in their spaces. And we know that spousal abuse in Honduras is ongoing. We learned recently that the grant submitted by Jose Artiga of the Share Foundation has been approved for $200,000 to purchase a building or land to build one. The condition is that we must raise $100,000 for renovation. Jean Stokan, Mercy staff member and Board Member for Share Foundation, has submitted a proposal to raise part of the $100,000. We need to raise the rest. We will begin a fundraising campaign this year. Do you have interest in joining us in this effort? If not, do you know of others who might be interested or who may have lived in Honduras for a time? Or do you know of people who have supported Mercy fundraisers in the past and might have an interest in this one? Donations: Send checks to: SHARE Foundation, 2425 College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704 Designation: Honduras Women’s Forum Building Online: Click Here to Donate Online Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Margie Rudnik Phone: 708-846-7789 Email: [email protected] |
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