“Please help us, because we can’t do this alone.”

Estela de Carlotto, the 94-year-old president of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo), is asking for help in a video the organization posted in July 2024 to raise awareness about its donations campaign. The campaign was relaunched last year and boosted again in 2024 after the Argentine government interrupted its state funding.

Once officially nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the Argentine state back in 2008, the organization has spent decades searching for the stolen children of the disappeared in the last military dictatorship. Since 1977, the Abuelas have found and restored the identity of 137 people who were taken away from their kidnapped mothers after birth and raised under false identities, often by military families.

Abuelas also launched a social media campaign to raise awareness about their ongoing effort on Tuesday to coincide with Argentina’s National Day of the Right to Identity, established on October 22 to honor the organization’s official date of birth.

“We have spent the last 46 years searching for our grandchildren who were abducted by the civic-military dictatorship. There could be more than 300. We are looking for them. We need to see them. To let them know who they really are and they can be reunited with their true families,” adds Carlotto in the video. Carlotto found her grandson back in 2014 after 36 years of........

© Buenos Aires Herald