Our efforts

We stretch our reach to the children, families, and LGBTI friends at block 13 and to the rest of the camp. Human rights defenders on ground are empowered to empower these people of all sexualities to live, dream, aspire and achieve.

Education

A solid foundation in education is key to success later in life. Your donations will help volunteer teachers with books, scholarstic materials and extracurricular activities to help get youngsters off to the right firm start despite the horrors awaiting them.

Health

Basic first aid provision and support for proper health care that many of us take for granted can be hard for others to access. We ensure that LGBTI in Kakuma Refugee camp have access to the private health practitioners they need, whom will understand them better, treat them with dignity and respect and won't discriminate them.

Community

Community is the family that goes beyond family. It is the people and places that we come in contact with each and every day. When we strengthen communities, we strengthen individuals.

Things HRDs and volunteers do in the camp

These are some of the things that human rights defenders believe they need to keep them going. "Each and every day, we carry out lots of work and activities across the camp among the LGBTI folks, involving people of every sexuality, age, interest and need."

Advocacy and human rights defending

After fact that human rights violation among the vulnerable LGBTIQA+ in the camp, there is a daily big need to defend and protect humanity. Human rights defenders in the camp and those in exile have daily roles of:-

1). Understanding the current immediate violations taking place in the camp and reacting accordingly to solve the injustice and or violation like denial of medical assistance, police services, incase of detentions, shortage of water at water point, etc.

2). Lobbying organisations, individuals, institutions, politicians, gorvernment agencies, international, regional, local NGOs and activists to understand well the lgbtiq refugee crisis in East Africa and how best they can engage.

3). Doing daily awareness. They create awareness in all possible ways they can as they believe that its one of the ways the freedom of all lgbtiq refugees and asylum seekers in Kenya and East Africa will be ensured,
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Mental health support

Ensuring healthy and happy queer communities, voluteers provide group counsellig to particularly those who are having serious mental illnesses. Folks dealing with suicidal ideations, folks with HIV/aids and survivours of homophobic experiences. They offer daily assistance by talking to them, encourage them, make them understand they are not alone,
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Sports Activities

Through the day, several sports activities are promoted, mostly in door activities like playing cards, droughts, chess, luddo, darts, etc. This is all to limit uncomfortability, depression, anxienty, among the LGBTQIA+ due to the fact that they are subjected to a lot. All this is done by voluteers to organise, regulate and promote them,
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