Advocacy Activities & Updates
What we’re working on right now to support Americans—especially veterans, military families, and at‑risk civilians—who are facing abandonment overseas. This section highlights current advocacy initiatives, ongoing campaigns, and recent actions in CFW’s work to document government failures, push for accountability, and bring people home.
Current Advocacy Focus
Our advocacy efforts center on building systematic support for Americans abandoned overseas through strategic documentation, congressional pressure, and public accountability campaigns.
Active Initiatives
Kelvin Blas Case Advocacy
Continued advocacy for an Army veteran stranded in Togo since 2016, including congressional outreach, FOIA documentation campaigns, and coordinated media engagement. View case details
FOIA Documentation Efforts
Systematic use of Freedom of Information Act requests to document government actions and failures, creating an accountability record from agencies’ own files. Learn about our FOIA work
Advocacy Capacity Building
Developing partnerships with legal aid organizations, veteran service groups, and allied advocacy organizations to expand CFW’s effectiveness and reach without building a large internal bureaucracy.
Recent Advocacy Work
Recent efforts focus on systematic documentation, strategic outreach, and building pressure through multiple advocacy channels.
Communication & Outreach
Congressional Engagement
Ongoing outreach to congressional representatives and oversight‑committee staff to raise awareness about specific cases and the systemic failures affecting Americans overseas. This includes sharing briefings, FOIA findings, and documented timelines that support formal inquiries and interventions.
Media Coordination
Working with journalists and media outlets to investigate government failures and amplify cases of Americans abandoned abroad. See our press resources for interview access, background materials, and story angles. See our press resources for more information.
Public Awareness Building
Strategic social media and public‑awareness efforts to highlight the challenges facing abandoned Americans and build public support for accountability campaigns. These efforts connect individual stories to the broader pattern of systemic abandonment and pressure agencies to respond.
Building for Growth
As an organization founded in 2025, CFW is focused on building sustainable capacity and refining effective, systematic advocacy methods for Americans abandoned overseas. Growth for us means more documented cases moved forward—not more bureaucracy for its own sake.
Development Priorities
- Building partnerships with established advocacy, legal, and accountability organizations that share our focus on evidence and transparency.
- Developing systematic approaches to case documentation and evidence gathering so every case file can withstand scrutiny from agencies, courts, and the press.
- Creating practical resources for Americans and families facing overseas crises, including guidance on what advocacy can and cannot realistically do.
- Expanding volunteer and support networks to strengthen FOIA tracking, research, family communication, and public‑awareness efforts.
- Refining advocacy methodology based on real‑world results, learning from both successful and stalled cases to improve how we challenge systemic abandonment.