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Attention!!
if you have a couple of minutes to spare please consider reading and especially if you are Gay, lesbian, bisexual or just queer/apart of the lgbtq community
This is a message shared by Birasa from Rwanda Africa
“I'm a person who fled persecution and left my six bedroom house and a shop inorder to save my life in 2020.
When I fled I went to Kenya were i requested UNHCR to provide me with protect and they took me to their camp called kakuma refugee camp. When I reached there the truth was there was no protection just to see fellow refugees being killed by my naked eyes and no UNHCR came to solve the situations.
I live a life full of discrimination, attacks, isolations, torture and the worse was starvation and most of the times I used to take porridge and water with my friends not only that but also to get medication it was very hard because all the doctors were homophobic to our sexual identities.
The insecurities were many and we decided to call for a dialogue meeting with UNHCR and the government of Kenya. This was in 2023 December. Disappointingly what they told us was inhuman. "The government told us that they had no room for queer refugees in their country 'Kenya"... This forced us queers to look for another nearby county that would accept us to be host refugees and that was South Sudan.
All of us are now here in Sudan in gorom refugee settlement camp.
What makes us annoyed is that what we thought to get safety was wrong only to find that is again worse that Kenya. The levels of inhumanity here are on high levels. This is why I reach out and spread awareness so that we can get support and advocacy. Any kind of support can make aton to our suffering.”
They have reached out to me in hopes i can help spread their story.
Unfortunately i am unable to help but i know my lovely moots and other people who will come across this post will be able to if by donating or just reposting.
Please, out of the kindness in your heart, make this beautiful persons day and donate ❤️
the world would benefit from more kindness as it desperately needs it
-> https://gofund.me/06ce1a52
