Location: North & South America

“I notice that you purchase and give the hygiene products with love, and when someone gives things with love, they will receive much,” Alma said, opening her hygiene kit bag. Alma, whose name means soul in English, has deep experience in the transformative power of love. Back home in Honduras,…

“No one had ever invited us to talk about this topic,” Maria, a mother of three, said. She had just attended one of our knowledge dialogues on preventing sexual abuse and human trafficking. “Thank you for alerting us. I really feel prepared to prevent anything,” Maria affirmed. Thanks to you,…

“I’m tired of pink clothes,” laments Rosa, only half-joking. Barbiecore has invaded Zulia, a state in northwestern Venezuela, too. In the months leading up to Barbie’s release, lots of Rosa’s customers ordered pink clothes to be made. Rosa and her mother, Sara* participated in our jobs empowerment program, opening a…

Martin connects the camera to the trinocular microscope so his client can see the water damage inside his mobile phone. No amount of rice in a bowl will fix that. When a phone takes a dive in this Venezuelan neighborhood, folks know where to go. Martin has been repairing phones…

Our migrant friends make homemade tamales with farm-grown chipilin. Photo by Rafael Rodriguez for Preemptive Love. In a shelter’s kitchen in the border city of Tapachula, spurts of laughter rival the clang of pots crowding the stovetop. Mary and Karla mix the chipilin leaves into the corn masa, cook the…

The view from the La Silla settlement in the Capital District of Venezuela. Photo by Albern Mendoza for Preemptive Love. Across the urban landscape, an invisible line separates the formal city from the homegrown settlements scaling the Venezuelan mountainside. In these Capital District settlements, community ties are strong. People rely…