A Holiday Wish from Alexandra
As you enter the holiday season and plan moments to be with your loved ones, we ask you to remember the children of El Salvador’s 10,000 disappeared.
Last year, on behalf of those of us who still long for the remains of our parents who were forcibly disappeared during El Salvador’s civil war, the Mauricio Aquino Foundation launched the Our Parents’ Bones Campaign. This campaign was blessed to receive the support of many people.
This support has helped us build strategic partnerships with Salvadoran and U.S. organizations and individuals, partnerships that are bringing us closer to the truth about what happened to our disappeared parents.
The questions to which we seek answers—What happened to El Salvador’s disappeared? Where are their remains? In what ways will the Salvadoran society honor the victims and tell the truth about this terrible past so that it will never happen again?—are being ignored by powerful people and institutions. Only a joint effort by the international community working in tandem with human rights advocates in El Salvador can break this silence.
In the next year, we will bring together a larger number of Salvadoran-American surviving children as a unified voice. Our delegations to Washington will call on our Congress and Administration to act responsibly in the wake of a terrible U.S.-fueled war that destroyed our families. Our actions, together with our resilient and courageous partners in El Salvador, will step up the pressure on Salvadoran legislators and courts to bring forth the truth and reconciliation for which we have been clamoring for over thirty years.
It is a difficult journey. And we need you to walk with us.
Every contribution makes a difference. Donations can be made online here or you can send a check made out to the Mauricio Aquino Foundation and mail it to 2425 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704.