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While many around the world celebrate Pride with parades, gatherings, and expressions of freedom, LGBTQ+ refugees in Gorom refugee camp, South Sudan, are facing a very different reality.

Many queer refugees have fled violence, discrimination, and persecution in search of safety. Yet in the camp, they continue to struggle with hunger, inadequate shelter, lack of medical care, and ongoing threats because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Every day is a challenge to find food, clean water, and basic necessities.

Pride Month reminds us that every person deserves dignity, safety, and hope. Unfortunately, many LGBTQ+ refugees in Gorom are still waiting for that promise to become reality.

Today, you can make a difference.

Your donation no matter how small can help provide: • Food and clean water • Emergency shelter and essential supplies • Healthcare and hygiene products • Support for vulnerable LGBTQ+ refugees seeking safety and stability

These are human beings with dreams, talents, and the same desire for a secure future as anyone else. They deserve to be seen, supported, and protected.

This Pride Month, please stand in solidarity with queer refugees who are struggling to survive. Share this message, raise awareness, and consider donating to support their urgent needs.

Together, we can turn compassion into action and help bring hope to those who need it most.

We continue to live in fear of attacks, exclusion, and persecution while struggling to meet our basic needs, including food, shelter, healthcare, and safety.

We urgently call upon human rights advocates, LGBTQ+ organizations, allies, and compassionate individuals around the world to stand with us. Your advocacy can help amplify our voices, and your donations can help provide essential support for our survival and well being.

Every act of solidarity makes a difference. Together, we can create hope, dignity, and a safer future for LGBTQ+ refugees in Gorom refugee camp.

We are a group of LGBTQ refugees living in Gorom Refugee Camp, South Sudan. Many of us fled our homes seeking safety from persecution, violence, discrimination, and rejection because of our sexual orientation or gender identity. Sadly, even after seeking refuge, our struggle for survival continues every day.

As LGBTQ refugees, we face unique challenges that make life in the camp extremely difficult. Many of us experience harassment, threats, physical attacks, and exclusion from services. Some have been abandoned by family members and lack the support networks that many others rely on. Finding food, shelter, healthcare, and other basic necessities has become a daily battle.

Today, we are reaching out to compassionate people around the world for help.

Your donation to our GoFundMe campaign will help provide:

• Food and clean drinking water for vulnerable LGBTQ refugees

• Safe shelter and emergency housing assistance

• Access to healthcare and essential medications

• Hygiene and sanitation supplies

• Clothing, bedding, and other basic necessities

• Support for those facing violence, discrimination, and homelessness

Every contribution, no matter the size, makes a real difference. A small donation can help provide a meal, purchase hygiene supplies, or offer temporary shelter to someone in urgent need. Together, these acts of kindness can help save lives and restore hope.

Pride Month reminds the world that every person deserves dignity, equality, and the chance to live free from fear. For LGBTQ refugees in Gorom Refugee Camp, your support is more than a donation it is a message that we are not forgotten and that our lives matter.

If you are unable to donate, you can still help by sharing our campaign with your friends, family, community groups, and social networks. Raising awareness is another powerful way to support our cause.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for standing with LGBTQ refugees during this difficult time. Your compassion and generosity give us hope for a safer and more secure future.

Together, we can help ensure that LGBTQ refugees in Gorom Refugee Camp have access to the basic human needs and dignity that every person deserves.

We are a group of LGBTQ refugees living in Gorom Refugee Camp, South Sudan. Many of us fled our homes seeking safety from persecution, violence, discrimination, and rejection because of our sexual orientation or gender identity. Sadly, even after seeking refuge, our struggle for survival continues every day.

As LGBTQ refugees, we face unique challenges that make life in the camp extremely difficult. Many of us experience harassment, threats, physical attacks, and exclusion from services. Some have been abandoned by family members and lack the support networks that many others rely on. Finding food, shelter, healthcare, and other basic necessities has become a daily battle.

Today, we are reaching out to compassionate people around the world for help.

Your donation to our GoFundMe campaign will help provide:

• Food and clean drinking water for vulnerable LGBTQ refugees

• Safe shelter and emergency housing assistance

• Access to healthcare and essential medications

• Hygiene and sanitation supplies

• Clothing, bedding, and other basic necessities

• Support for those facing violence, discrimination, and homelessness

Every contribution, no matter the size, makes a real difference. A small donation can help provide a meal, purchase hygiene supplies, or offer temporary shelter to someone in urgent need. Together, these acts of kindness can help save lives and restore hope.

Pride Month reminds the world that every person deserves dignity, equality, and the chance to live free from fear. For LGBTQ refugees in Gorom Refugee Camp, your support is more than a donation it is a message that we are not forgotten and that our lives matter.

If you are unable to donate, you can still help by sharing our campaign with your friends, family, community groups, and social networks. Raising awareness is another powerful way to support our cause.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for standing with LGBTQ refugees during this difficult time. Your compassion and generosity give us hope for a safer and more secure future.

Together, we can help ensure that LGBTQ refugees in Gorom Refugee Camp have access to the basic human needs and dignity that every person deserves.

Queer refugees in East Africa are living at the intersection of multiple forms of vulnerability fleeing violence at home, only to face new risks in displacement.

Across the region, many LGBTQ+ people are forced to leave their countries because of criminalization, persecution, and threats to their lives. In some places, same-sex relationships are still punishable by severe penalties, even death.

For those who reach countries like Kenya or Uganda, safety is not guaranteed. Refugee camps such as Kakuma have seen reports of discrimination, attacks, and tensions affecting LGBTQ+ residents, even as humanitarian agencies try to improve protection.

Recent years have also seen more people fleeing harsh laws like Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act pushing queer individuals to seek asylum across borders, often into already strained systems.

Beyond physical safety, queer refugees face isolation, lack of healthcare, limited legal protection, and mental health challenges shaped by both displacement and identity-based trauma.

And yet, across East Africa, queer refugee communities continue to organize, support each other, and demand dignity, visibility, and rights.

Queer refugees are not just statistics they are people seeking the same thing anyone would: safety, belonging, and the freedom to live openly.

🏳️‍🌈 Their stories matter. Their safety matters. Their rights matter.

We've hope to whom it may concern that the help and support you provide will probably make a change of living. We arguably plead for help on providing a fundraiser for a small group of LGBTQ members facing extreme difficulties and crucially voiceless.

Your voice might be the reason why ours might be heard! Help LGBTQ in Gorom South Sudan, thanks ❤️

Thanks everyone managing to donate and share for us ,please we still need more support help what you can to save lives of lgbtiq refugees living in the refugee camp

Thanks for the love support and solidarity ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

I have a request please, my community fundraiser has taken long without donations, please help out what you can so that we can be able to buy food and also access medical care, please consider helping us anything little🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I have a request please, my community fundraiser has taken long without donations, please help out what you can so that we can be able to buy food and also access medical care, please consider helping us anything little🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Starvation is another challenge we face ,there is shortage of food in the refugee camp as we can't work in the refugee camp because of discrimination and fear to be attacked on our way

Another challenge is shortage of medical care ,most of the time transgenders we are discriminated in UNHCR hospitals by the doctors and other refugees ,so we find it difficult to go there for treatment, it will be better when one gets support and go to private hospitals where they will give treatment for money which is safer

Another issue is shelters ,we have few shelters with us ,when it comes to night ,some of us sleep outside ,we live the rooms for the lesbians to sleep inside and the little children ,if support is got ,we can add more shelters and also get a fence built with iron sheets for our safety

Please support us through our fundraiser, anything donated will mean alot to us ❤️, we need your love, support and solidarity ❤️ 💙 💜

Starvation is another challenge we face ,there is shortage of food in the refugee camp as we can't work in the refugee camp because of discrimination and fear to be attacked on our way

Another challenge is shortage of medical care ,most of the time transgenders we are discriminated in UNHCR hospitals by the doctors and other refugees ,so we find it difficult to go there for treatment, it will be better when one gets support and go to private hospitals where they will give treatment for money which is safer

Another issue is shelters ,we have few shelters with us ,when it comes to night ,some of us sleep outside ,we live the rooms for the lesbians to sleep inside and the little children ,if support is got ,we can add more shelters and also get a fence built with iron sheets for our safety

Please support us through our fundraiser, anything donated will mean alot to us ❤️, we need your love, support and solidarity ❤️ 💙 💜

Every day in the camp feels like a fight for survival. We are LGBTIQ refugees who fled our homes with nothing but fear in our hearts and hope in our hands. Yet even here, safety is not guaranteed. Many of us face threats, rejection, trauma, and deep loneliness.

We are trying to stay alive… trying to stay human… trying to hold on to hope.

Your support isn’t just money it is protection, it is a lifeline, it is a reminder that the world has not forgotten us. Even the smallest donation can help us afford food, medicine, shelter, and the dignity we’ve been denied for so long.

Please, stand to us. Help us survive. Help us feel seen, loved, and safe though our group hasn't gotten any donation link. Please you can DM us for more. Thanks