We would like to take this opportunity to remind you that:

– One of our association’s main commitments is to ensure the continuity of financial support for Asian movements working with populations affected by multiple crises, even when the situation in their countries disappears from the international news radar.

– Our policy is to help these movements carry out their actions according to the priorities they themselves determine. We do not impose ‘our’ projects. All the funds we receive are passed on to them. The small team of volunteers who run our association finance the ‘internal’ costs (website, newsletters, etc.) themselves.

– In the Philippines, we support the MiHands coalition, a network of around fifty associations based in Mindanao with multiple areas of intervention, based in the south of the archipelago, particularly in the region where Christian and Muslim populations live side by side, as well as the Lumad indigenous peoples. In Bangladesh, the farmers‘ associations BKF and BKS work primarily with small landless peasants who cultivate public land left fallow and who are victims of the landowners’ henchmen or of climatic disasters. In Indonesia, the association Free Women, whose main activity is to defend the social and reproductive rights of women workers in industrial zones in the garment sector and to combat gender-based violence in the domestic sphere and in the workplace. In Pakistan, the Crofter Foundation, whose priority is to defend the interests of peasant farmers, more broadly, it works with the Labour Education Foundation to respond to political and humanitarian emergencies. Unfortunately, we are still unable to re-establish links in Burma.

– All these activities are part of a process of self-organisation by the people concerned, so that they are in a position to defend their social, democratic, political, territorial and cultural rights... - a task made particularly difficult in areas of heavy militarisation, in the event of repeated climatic disasters, of widespread precariousness of the social fabric under the blows of the neo-liberal order, of the rise in power of extreme right-wing fundamentalism... The movements we support are continuing their activities against all odds. It is all the more essential to continue to affirm our solidarity in such conditions.

We thank in advance all those who will be able to respond to our appeal.

Pierre Rousset and Adam Novak
ESSF, 22 September 2024

If you would like your donation to be dedicated to a particular country, please indicate this. Otherwise, your donation will go to ESSF’s Permanent Asian Solidarity Fund.

Donations can be made on a one-off basis, in the form of monthly transfers (which allows us to anticipate income) or a combination of the two.

Small donations count too! There is no amount too small for solidarity.

You can refer to our association’s activity report for 2024:
https://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article70269

To send donations via ESSF

Donations can be given by cheques (in euros only, payable in France), direct bank transfers to our account or via Helloasso and PayPal. All payment options are listed on the home page of our website.

Cheques
cheques to ESSF in euros only, payable in France, to be sent to:
ESSF
2, rue Richard-Lenoir
93100 Montreuil
France

Bank Account:
Crédit lyonnais
Agence de la Croix-de-Chavaux (00525)
10 boulevard Chanzy
93100 Montreuil
France
ESSF, account number 445757C

International bank account details :
IBAN : FR85 3000 2005 2500 0044 5757 C12
BIC / SWIFT : CRLYFRPP
Account holder : ESSF

Through PayPal
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Or click on the PayPal icon on the home page.

Through HelloAsso
You can also send money through the association HelloAsso: see its button on ESSF English home page: http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?page=sommaire&lang=en
Or go directly to:
https://www.helloasso.com/associations/europe-solidaire-sans-frontieres/formulaires/1/widget