I'm back home after the trip, it went really well and we had a great time, and I also took the time to speak to my friends to set a course of action for this responsibility I've been given to distribute donations.

I've already thanked in private the people who have donated, but thank you so much, yet again, I never expected even a dollar and it was really such a shock, Toribash never fails to move me. Thank you even for considering helping out.

After a lot of discussion between my core bros we have come to a goal that we feel is the most beneficial balancing between friends and family, and I'd like to publicly ask for help not money-wise but regarding organizing our moves, if anyone has any idea please reach out to me on discord @alejandrote

What is this about? I figured just giving money out to struggling friends or family members which I already initially did, had a great impact, but in the end it fizzles out and makes no real difference as the Venezuelan citizen has a warrior-based mentality that always sorts food out, which is the main concern, so I want to funnel the help into one single cause to REALLY change a life instead of simply extending the same suffering of some.

We want to help a friend out, her name is VERY unique and easy to track so I'll shorten it to Lu, I met her years ago when she was being kicked out of her house and I took her under my and my family's wings for months until she sorted her situation out, she lived with me and we've spent Christmases together, she's one of my best friends and what's happening to her is hell.

Just last week, while in her family home where she's living again after setting up a small gift shop instagram page and being able to earn a small income, she came to the harsh reality that she was being persecuted and her home was being raided by military police, we still don't know if it was the CICPC/DGCIM/PNB/GNB, but heavily armed masked policemen came to arrest her by code of the hate laws [pdf] made by the government to do this sort of thing impunely. While this was going on she overheard being part of a list, as she was very carelessly and publicly using both her personal and business instagram pages to promote dissidence and anti-government causes, so being in this list made sense, thankfully me and my family had told her to be wary about it because of what is going on regarding censorship and persecution and she had deleted most such things off her phone before being raided.

While the policemen barged into her house, her father recognized one of the policemen through the balaclava and lack of ID tags, and politely, yet in fear, greeted him by name. As if by miracle, the policeman was shook and defused the situation, telling other agents to wait outside to sort it out, after some talk and phones were exchanged, she was not taken away this time.

She's still receiving constant and intimidating calls by random phone numbers, all day every day ever since before that took place, and this has obviously paralyzed any sort of possible income she could receive as her line of work requires in-person delivery, and it could be a honeypot.

I spoke to her in a long and hard to digest videocall and she told me everything that was going on, and I knew I had to help her just like when she was couch-surfing just a couple years ago.

Main concern is she needs a passport because she's being offered a safe arrival and a way to stay abroad, which would obviously be better for her, the issue is passports are expensive here and then again it's not only the passport but all the bribing and travel expenses that come with it. I have a lot of pictures, phone numbers where she's being harassed from, photos of herself in the protests, all sort of proof that would be necessary when making a legit donation campaign.

However I do not know about this world at all, if anyone has experience on getting this rolling and truly call to attention a cause that can change someone's life, rather than throw darts at needs that will fill a belly for a couple days, PLEASE help me with what I need to do.

Today her cat showed up at her house with one of his paws hacked off, its tendons still loosely hanging, anything could have happened, but I know what I think it is. And I don't even want to type it out.

tl;dr I don't need the help, but I can get it for my friend who's had her house literally raided by an armed militia after speaking out in social media. I need help on what I need to do to get this rolling

pic related is us making some sick ass homemade pizza