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Hondurans have joined the online donation campaign to repatriate the bodies of Jeyler and Jimmy Rivera Saints, Honduran brothers originally from Atima, Santa Barbara who died in a car accident in the US on Thursday.
The promoter of the initiative is Carlos Eduardo Espina, a young Uruguayan who is dedicated to the laudable task of raising money on the Internet to help people in need. Through the social network Tik Tok, Where he has more than a million followers, Espina has embarked on a fundraising campaign in search of repatriating the bodies of the Rivera brothers.
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The families of the victims, especially their parents, who said they felt devastated after the incident, called on Honduran authorities for help in caring for their children in their hometown in the western department of Honduras. Santa Barbara.
However, Espina and all donors, especially Latin Americans living in USA, From where the young man, in Texas, Is dedicated to projecting works of this type, have already raised more than $ 31,000.
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“This is the ONLY one GoFundMe officer to help the parents of de Jeyler and Jimmy Rivera-Santos. We are raising funds for his family to pay for funeral expenses and other necessities, ”reads the official donation site for the repatriation of Hondurans.
Brothers Jimmy and Heyler Rivera, of 27 and 23 years of age, had resided in the American country for thirteen years, respectively. They worked in various fields in the state of Texas to support and help their parents, already of the third age.
“He told me (Heyler) that he would fix the pastures so that I wouldn’t work and rest,” said José Rivera, the father of the dead, during the week, from the town of Santa Barbara. “He was telling me that all he wanted was to help me so that we could live well,” he adds.