PBI has given me the opportunity to cross the path of people who defend Life. And now that I am at a moment in my life when I think I have to choose between believing and not believing, having crossed their paths gives me the possibility to choose: I do want to believe.
Anonymous
Guatemala
PBI is an NGO that I will always carry in my heart
Catiane Vander Kelen
Colombia, 2006-2009
PBI has made me a better person, it has trained me as an activist and as an agent of social intervention, and through PBI I have met people and experienced situations that I will always carry in my heart
Félix
Guatemala, 1995
It has given me another view of my home country and the knowledge of a different culture.
Ralf Meyer
Mexico
PBI provided me with knowledge in human rights and protection of human rights defenders that no other organization has given me. It has allowed me to grow intellectually and humanely, and to meet people and social movements that have enriched me greatly. Working in an international team also gave me a lot of humility and resilience, as I learned to work in a team on a daily basis.
Manon Muti
Honduras, 2014-2015
I have been with PBI in different roles since 1996. It’s a lifelong activism in my case
Montse Garcia
Guatemala, 1997-1998
It is essential to defend those who defend. PBI transformed my life; I totally changed my professional orientation.
Paco Simón Conejos
Colombia and Honduras, 2001, 2014, 2016, 2018
I believe that a key function of PBI - apart from direct protection - is to help volunteers understand, perceive and feel the injustice experienced by people in the global south. If we then go to the countries of the global north we can use this experience to demand, promote, initiate changes in politics and also in daily life by demonstrating the connections between realities
Michael Kettelhoit
Colombia
I believe that PBI’s work is very important in the process of opening spaces and creating safe conditions for human rights defenders to continue their legitimate work. Every time we realize that we have contributed one more brick in the construction of justice and the defense of human rights, I think that PBI’s work is worthwhile.
Giusy
Mexico 2017-ahora
As long as human rights defenders are valuing international accompaniment as a tool that gives them protection, security and moral support to continue their struggles, PBI’s work (and other signs of international solidarity) must continue.
Silvia Weber
Guatemala, 2008-ahora