Video-Conference Your Loved One Campaign

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El Refugio
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With your gift, we can put money on phone accounts, which can also be used for video-conferencing.

$5,620

raised by 83 people

$6,000 goal

We are restarting this campaign, now with video-conferencing!

Update posted 4 years ago

We started this campaign in March, right when COVID-19 struck, and we quickly raised more than $4,000 for credit on telephone accounts, so our friends at Stewart could call loved ones. They made a lot of calls. In some cases, they used their phone credit to call El Refugio and thank us for the phone credit! 

With no end in sight to the re-opening of visitation, Stewart finally got video-conferencing, something other detention centers have always had. Now our friends can use the money we put on their accounts to tele-conference with their partners, children, parents, and other loved ones. And also with El Refugio volunteers and staff! Thank you for supporting this campaign! With your gift, we can make a direct, immediate impact on the lives of people at Stewart and their loved ones. 

El Refugio is a ministry of visitation and hospitality to those detained at Stewart Detention Center and their loved ones. Social visits have been cancelled because of the coronavirus. But we are still going to support our friends in detention! We cannot visit them in person, but we can put money on their telephone accounts so they can call their loved ones! Please contribute to this effort, so we can put money on the accounts of about 175 detained friends on our visitation list, as well as other friends we can identify through our attorney contacts, Facebook, and other sources. 

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