Our Impact Campaign

Each of our campaign goals has been created with and for the mothers of the Caravan featured in the film — and designed to grow networks of solidarity that respond to the larger crisis faced by immigrants in the United States.

  1. 🌱 Trees & Living Memorial

We are creating a Living Memorial of 70,000 trees to honor the Central American migrants who are missing.
Each tree represents one missing person — a life that matters, a story that deserves to be remembered.

Trees will be planted around the world, forming a global forest of remembrance. Every tree will appear on an interactive online map, connecting people and communities across borders.

At future screenings, we will share tree seeds and seedlings carrying the faces and names of missing migrants, so audiences can take part in growing the memorial and keeping their memories alive.

Take Action: Memorial for the Disappeared

Help transform absence into a living presence. Join our movement to remember, honor, and take root together.

  1. Sign up for our mailing list — we’ll notify you when you can:

    • Receive a tree seedling honoring a missing migrant.

    • Attend a tree-planting ceremony near you.

  2. Plant a tree and share its location to become part of our global Living Memorial.

2. 🎬 Seeds of Memory Screening Caravan

We are taking the film along migrant routes and border states to amplify the voices of mothers and families affected by disappearances.

Screenings will:

  • Expose the ongoing crisis of migrant disappearances in the U.S.

  • Spark conversations about ICE raids, family separation, and immigrant rights

  • Bring families’ testimonies to policymakers with partners like WOLA, Amnesty International, and Border Angels

TAKE ACTION

  • Host a screening of A Place of Absence, bringing the faces and stories of those who disappeared to your community. 

  • Partner with us to bring the film to issue area experts and policy makers who have the power to enact laws and shift policies that protect all people, no matter their nationality, political affiliation, or other identities, from disappearance

  • Contact us at aplaceofabsence@gmail.com if you can offer a connection or introduction to get us into these spaces.