When systems fail, people die.

Across borders, people are pushed into danger through neglect, deterrence, and the slow erosion of civil society. The community networks meant to support people are stretched thin, criminalised, or forced to withdraw.

Collective Aid exists to build a different system, one that protects lives, makes violence visible, and ensures communities are not alone.

The problem: People are dying

Our goal is to reduce preventable deaths at borders and in marginalised communities by combining frontline aid, evidence-based investigations, and community power. We do this by strengthening the ecosystem of solidarity where systems are failing, and by ensuring that survival today leads to community action and protection tomorrow.

The Strategy: Three necessary pillars

We document deaths and disappearances, taking that evidence where accountability is possible.

Because violence that is unseen cannot be challenged.

We Reveal

We meet basic needs at the most complex borders, ensuring clothing, water, hygiene, warmth are delivered to those in need.

Because survival comes first and showing up is how trust is built.

We Relieve

We train, equip, and connect communities and collectives so that solidarity outlives any single moment.

Because community only lasts when civil society is

We Strengthen

The Theory of Change: Change one link at a time

If people’s basic needs are met, if harm is documented and made visible, and if communities and collectives are equipped to act together, then people and communities will be safer.

Truth and aid require community power in order to build a future where:

1. Fewer people die unseen at borders

2. Communities can speak, organise, and advocate safely

3. Civil society is protected, connected, and sustained

You are part of this strategy

Change at this scale does not come from one of us acting alone. It comes from collective aid.

Strategic Mutualism: Survival through solidarity