About Us

Why We Exist

Millions of people around the world face limited access to education, healthcare, resources, and opportunity. More than 273 million children and young people are out of school, and over 117 million people have been forcibly displaced. Too many communities continue to face discrimination, exclusion, and barriers that prevent their voices from being heard.

Who We Are

WTTW is an international non-profit organization made up of a diverse community of over 50 volunteers from 25 countries. We are not united by a single ideology or profession, but by a common purpose: to cross the walls that divide us as humanity, cultivating a higher awareness of unity and remembering that everything is interconnected — that what happens to one happens to us all.

Mission

We accompany communities affected by walls, embracing the richness of our differences within unity. Our mission is not to tear walls down — for walls have always been part of humanity. They protect, contain, and define, yet they also separate, exclude, and disconnect.

We seek to uncover the stories hidden behind walls and amplify the voices they silence. Through this awareness, we build bridges of understanding, resilience, and hope — transforming barriers into paths toward shared humanity. That is why our slogan is: Unity Beyond Borders.

Vision

We envision a world where difference is a source of enrichment, not division. Where communities with material abundance learn from those rooted in spirit and connection, and where those rich in spirit are supported with the resources needed to thrive. Our vision is to restore balance — weaving cultures, wisdom, and resources into one shared fabric of humanity.

What We Do

At WTTW we lead community-driven projects in contexts of division, exclusion, and structural violence. Our approach is holistic and our methods are original and conscious, weaving actions that transform barriers into opportunities through:

Direct Action

We work on the ground, side by side with communities affected by border, economic, social, historical, cultural, or environmental walls. We don’t just tell stories—we live them on the frontlines: every photo and video we share comes from our own field experience.

Purpose-Driven Documentary Production

We amplify silenced voices, shed light on invisible realities, and create advocacy campaigns that ignite political, social, and cultural change—from the local level to the global.

Strategic Multi-Sector Advocacy

We work in networks with universities, businesses, and organizations that understand that global change begins with conscious decisions and authentic alliances. Beyond classic social responsibility, we foster corporate and academic social conviction.

Comprehensive Impact Projects

Because human beings are complex, we approach them holistically, integrating access to justice, education, health and well-being, art, and environmental protection.

Our Story

WTTW was born from the restless heart, persistence, and fieldwork of Isidora J. Ramírez Garmendia, a Chilean international lawyer who wrote her doctoral thesis not from theory, but from the ground. For more than seven years she walked along the world’s walls that divide humanity, seeking not numbers, but living stories.

The result was her research titled "Walled Globalization: An Ontological Approach to the Wall in the Global Era" — and something even greater: a community of conscious people, woven from lived experience and deep connection. That was the seed of The Drop.

Her path ran from the Mapuche-Williche Indigenous peoples in southern Chile to the Haiti–Dominican Republic border; from landmine victims in Western Sahara to voluntarily isolated Indigenous peoples in Ecuador; from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to Medellín’s Comuna 13, or the natural ice walls of Patagonia’s glaciers. Isidora was never just an observer: she documented, accompanied, and defended —pro bono— the communities she encountered.

In 2024, on a bus heading to Dajabón, Dominican Republic to document mass deportations of Haitian people, she wrote down the names of the awake, or elevated, people she had met over the years: she could no longer do it alone, and she had sold everything to sustain the project.

Thus, The Drop was born — a human collective of doctors, journalists, lawyers, entrepreneurs, artists, healers, and walkers of all kinds, from over 25 nationalities, united by a shared conviction: that collective consciousness is the only key capable of crossing the walls that divide us.