By David Bertet | President of the Board of Directors
Like the overwhelming majority of nonprofit organizations, EN VERO has experienced significant difficulties in meeting its goals in terms of funding since the last year. The global pandemic has negatively impacted our capacity to reach out our usual donors as well as new ones. As a result, the project we launched in April 2020, in the midst of the COVID19 situation has encountered limited success so far.
Our project #45724 (“Using New Technologies to Free 2 Innocent Colombians”) received $88 in Canadian Dollars (aprox. $71 USD) since our last report on January 2021. Although these numbers remain far below our objectives, this remains a perfectly understandable situation, and many other Human Rights NGOs have suffered similar unfortunate setbacks in their funding campaigns. We are nonetheless thankful to our fellow donors who were able to make a contribution to our projects and activities, no matter the amount, small or large, of the latter, especially given the financial struggles each and every one of us has had to deal with in the past few months.
As a result the limited success of our current fundraising project, our team has been working on a brand new project to be presented the upcoming month of June 2021. Our fundraising team has also been restructured, now joined by M. Gildo Galeana from Canada and Cecilia Tapia from México. M. Galeana was also one of the incipient members of EN VERO as he participated in its foundation.
Thanks to a major addition to our team of partners in Columbia, i.e. the law firm' SOY TU ABOGADO HOY'based in Santa Marta, one of the two cases specifically targeted by the project #45724 has shown very promising results, with new strong evidence of the detainee's innocence, which is why we are confident we will be able to obtain the detainee's complete exoneration and release within the next few months.
Freeing the innocent has also led us to intervene directly to humanize prisons and to make sure the inmates are treated with dignity and respect, and that their medical needs are properly attended by prison authorities.
We thank you for your ongoing support and your trust in EN VERO. This alone remains one major incentive to allow our team of dedicated volunteers and activists to do what is right: reforming dysfunctional systems of justice so that they work according to international norms of justice. There is no place on earth where systemic injustice should remain in place. There is no human being treated unfairly who should not be treated as our brother or sister.
David Bertet
President of the Board of Directors
president@en-vero.org
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