Urgent appeal for help!
One of our most prolific rescue artists needs emergency surgery.
Erica Rivero may be barely 25 years old, but she has been rescuing children from slavers since she was a pre-teen.
Erica’s grandmother supported the family by cleaning at a bar frequented by mobster pimps and the slavery cartel outside Merida, Venezuela. At an early age, she started sneaking food and soap to the captive children that were being bought and sold at this mobster-run dive bar.
Later, she started arranging escapes by weakening the fortifications to the cells where the little boys and girls were being held.
It’s been a decade since, and now Erica needs our help.
After rescuing three sisters, 15, 17, 19 years old last week, Erica was hit with crippling pain even before she got the girls to the safe house in Colombia. As a Venezuelan national, the Colombian hospital insists on payment in advance of her surgery. If she returns to Venezuela for treatment, she could be in grave danger, because of her history with the cartels.
Would you help us? We’re using food money to pay the medical bill, so we need food now. The sisters are three more mouths to feed, and Erica’s surgery and recovery will be almost $4,000 (easily $50,000 in the USA.) Will you help us to save our Angel from Merida?
Donations can be sent by Zelle using the Americasa Foundation text number: 480.953.1185
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The concept of “pay it forward” is big with us. We expect those that we help to help others, either within the foundation or of their own accord. When you contribute to support Americasa Foundation, you can rest assured that all that money benefits those at risk of human trafficking.
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Listen to their stories.
When you speak with an Americasa Foundation volunteer, remember that your natural curiosity is probably about the most painful experience of their lives, so be careful to not dig too deeply. Many of these people are victims of outrageous dehumanizing traumas.
Americasa saves the most number of lives for the least money possible using the “ounce of prevention” method, rather than the dramatic and for more costly “pound of cure” method. We’re not denigrating the action stars of the philanthropy world, we just think it’s better to keep vulnerable people away from danger in the first place. Lower overhead means more people saved.