My best memory is experiencing the simultaneity of hope, sadness, joy, anger and courage

Joana Kathe
Honduras, 2016-2017

I will never forget the encounters with people and communities that have resisted war for decades, to build structures of solidarity, fight against impunity, create sustainable small-scale farming and build critical educational projects. These encounters inspire me for my future, politically active life!

Christina Gerdts
Colombia, 2018-2019

PBI has changed my life and who I am, I learned a lot, I am more patient, I listen better and more actively, I am more conscientious

Nathalie Bienfait
Colombia, 2015-2021

The accompaniment and safeguarding of human rights carried out by PBI is important, in my opinion it is an essential aspect for the construction of peace, equity and social and plural justice of peoples and disadvantaged people in conditions of vulnerability of their fundamental rights. In this sense, PBI is like a small-big bulwark that contributes, in an essential way, to the construction of a world where all worlds fit

Pilar Front Serrano,
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras

I think PBI’s work is very important. It is necessary to make visible and accompany the people who give their lives to have better possibilities of existence. On the other hand, I love knowing that there are other ways of being able to work

Marcela Paz Carrasco Rodriguez
Honduras

I see PBI’s work as a way of being able to help, without being patronizing, but very conscious of my privileged position

Kathi Dunkel
Guatemala, 2011-2012

During my first field experience, I met people who remain very important in my life to this day. PBI’s work is important because of the solidarity it embodies

Aurore Guyard
Mexico 

PBI has been a fundamental work experience in my path, it has allowed me to be trained in security related issues and it was a unique life experience. After PBI I began to collaborate with a local organization in Oaxaca with which I have now been working for 9 years.

Emilie DeWolf,
Mexico, 2010-2012

It allowed me to get to know a very well planned and organized way of working as a team and network, and gave me the opportunity to meet extraordinary people and communities (defenders)

Alvaro Zaldivar
Guatemala, 2011-2012

PBI’s work is fundamental because it represents international solidarity with human rights defenders and a commitment to change the world. PBI offers an opportunity to grow as a person, in contact with human rights defenders who fight for human rights despite the risks they face, and because of the horizontal organizational structure that forces greater reflection and greater responsibility from each of its members

Vicente Vallies
Colombia, 2000-ahora