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Greetings from REFUGEE CAMP.

My name is Sonia Gay and I am a refugee here, writing with an appeal for financial aid for refugees at the camp as food rations have been suspended. I am appealing particularly for LGBTQIA residents at the camp. We are suffering from hunger to such a degree that there are going to be deaths before long from malnutrition and starvation. I am asking you to use whatever means you have to provide funds for even the basics of food to keep us alive while we are awaiting resettlement. Any sum, no matter how small, will be gratefully received and will help keep starvation and all the attendant problems that this brings at bay. In addition to the problem of hunger, some of us are also in need of shelter, in the form of simple tents, as we sleep exposed to the elements, experiencing extreme heat and extreme cold, and also dangers of attack from homophobic residents at the camp, as well as from snakes and scorpions.Please help: this is a crisis of enormous proportions, and no one deserves to perish as a result of the cessation of food rationing by international agencies. Thank you for your attention and may we count on your generosity and solidarity?