18. 11. 2023. 03:36
There are 19 LGBTQ persons, including their 3 children and an 8 week old infant who are from Uganda and live in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya that don’t have food to eat today because they are being discriminated against and can’t get work and live saving health care that they need to pay for food and for medication for HIV.
They are running out of food tomorrow until Dec 3 when the World Food Programme will distribute a monthly food ration that is not sustainable for 1 person to eat for the entire monthThe people who live in Block 7 in Zone 3 in Kakuma who are from Uganda and who are LGBTQ formed a committee to advocate for each other and to get funding from people like you who are willing to help. This is the link for this table drive.google.com/file/d/1RZjBMQayTM7BGRC-pwQUiahi7w86LWjm/view?usp=drivesdk
that l they made Nov 14 that shows how much money in Kenyan Shillings they need every week to pay for food, medication for HIV (ARTs) and the other live saving essentials. It is a total of $906.43 US per week.
They cannot receive shipments. Nov 17 on a call on WhatsApp they told me that they also need money for baby formula, sanitary pads for menstruation, money for a solar panel to charge their phone and for power that costs $8,000 Kenyan shillings each, 15 mosquito nets that they need to stop the spread of a malaria that cost $600 Kenyan shillings, mattresses to sleep on, blankets, a fence for protection for the area where they live, bras and panties, diapers, soap for bathing, deodorant and razors for shaving.
This is a critical situation and I’m asking for your support to help kick start this 3 day campaign and to raise money for the 15 LGBTQ adults and their four children who live in Block 7, Zone 3 in the Kampala refugee camp in Kenya. This money is necessary to pay to buy food to eat and meds for HIV and what else they need to do to survive and to help themselves.
This is the link for the Go Fund Me petition to contribute for this :
www.gofundme.com/crisis-for-the-lgbtq-people-who-live-in-kakuma
The LGBTQ people who live in the Kampala refugee camp are stopped from getting work.
The LGBTQ community who live in Kakuma experience extensive and deliberate delays from the Kenyan authorities when applying for asylum. Hamu has been waiting since 2021. Without being granted asylum in Kenya the LGBTQ refugees don’t have a resident permit that they need in order to be hired and work.They cannot leave Kampala to find better job living opportunities without a work or resident permit and they are stopped from being hired inside the camp. They are being denied information to apply for asylum in other countries. This is money that they can’t live without because they need it to pay for food and their living expenses.
LGBTQ asylum seekers who live in Kampala experience discrimination in Kenya when they go to look for any kind of job that pays wages. People will not hire them because they are LGBTQ. They find this out because they do not speak Swahili and they find out that they are from Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Republic of Congo. The Kenyans know that refugees from these countries, where Swahili is not usually spoken, come to Kenya because they are fleeing persecution because of their sexual and gender identity and understand that these people are LGBTQ.
Please give what you can. People are glossing over this like it’s a scam. It is not