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🥶We're freezing🥶

Hello, I'm Wasim from Gaza, in Al-Mawasi specifically... My family and I were displaced from Rafah after hardship, bombing, displacement, and hunger.😭😔

Now we have been away from our city and our beautiful home for 9 months. We have lost our house that my father built stone by stone and he worked 24/7 to build this house. But the occupation destroyed it, and no house remained in my beautiful city remained intact.😭💔💔

We are now living in a tent or semi-tent, which does not protect us from the cold of winter or the rain. Our lives are very difficult.😔😭

Thanks to your donations, we have been able to buy food and flour, and now I am asking you for help to buy a tent that will protect us from the cold of winter. We do not know what it means to sleep because of the extreme cold.🥶

This is our tent made of fabric and some nylon, not closed on one side. We are freezing from the cold. Help us to buy a new tent. You are our last hope.😭🥶🥶🙏

I also want to ask for help for my mother, who is the most precious thing in my life. Without her, I am nothing...

She has a back cartilage disease and is in great pain. She needs physical therapy, medicine, and vitamins, and I am unable to provide them. Help my mother receive treatment.🙏🙏😭

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We are living through extremely difficult days that weigh heavily on our hearts. The war has affected me deeply; it has changed me and changed my family completely. Every day we wake up to a harsh reality — the cold is severe, and life has become scattered and full of fear and exhaustion.

We no longer have a home to protect us. The tent has become the only place where we try to shelter ourselves from the cold and the wind. We try to stay strong and hold on, but life here has become incredibly difficult.

Every day we face hardship, yet we still hold on to hope that there are kind hearts willing to help us. Your support and help can make a real difference in our lives and give us a chance to live with dignity and safety.

From my heart, I ask you to stand with us and help us through these very difficult days.

Please donate here. / Donation Match.

- @lgbtqgorom1

This is the message I’ve been asked to relay! Please. If you have anything to spare! Whether it’s time, money., resources or just attention and words then please spare it. You could be the reason that queer refugees get the help and basic necessities granted to them!

Donating - Even as little as $5 , $10 , $15 or as large as $20 , $30 , $40.

Sharing - Sharing this post with just five people could make all the difference!

Reblogging - This post and adding a few words and extra tags can help spread the message!

Links to donate! ⬇️

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- @lgbtqgorom1

This is the message I’ve been asked to relay! Please. If you have anything to spare! Whether it’s time, money., resources or just attention and words then please spare it. You could be the reason that queer refugees get the help and basic necessities granted to them!

Donating - Even as little as $5 , $10 , $15 or as large as $20 , $30 , $40.

Sharing - Sharing this post with just five people could make all the difference!

Reblogging - This post and adding a few words and extra tags can help spread the message!

Links to donate! ⬇️

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- @lgbtqgorom1

This is the message I’ve been asked to relay! Please. If you have anything to spare! Whether it’s time, money., resources or just attention and words then please spare it. You could be the reason that queer refugees get the help and basic necessities granted to them!

Donating - Even as little as $5 , $10 , $15 or as large as $20 , $30 , $40.

Sharing - Sharing this post with just five people could make all the difference!

Reblogging - This post and adding a few words and extra tags can help spread the message!

Links to donate! ⬇️

🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

- @lgbtqgorom1

This is the message I’ve been asked to relay! Please. If you have anything to spare! Whether it’s time, money., resources or just attention and words then please spare it. You could be the reason that queer refugees get the help and basic necessities granted to them!

Donating - Even as little as $5 , $10 , $15 or as large as $20 , $30 , $40.

Sharing - Sharing this post with just five people could make all the difference!

Reblogging - This post and adding a few words and extra tags can help spread the message!

Links to donate! ⬇️

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We have fire to cook with, water to drink, and hardship known only to God 😔

We now live on the hope of people's mercy and support… Your donations mean life to us and could help my children overcome this pain 🙏🤍

We have fire to cook with, water to drink, and hardship known only to God 😔

We now live on the hope of people's mercy and support… Your donations mean life to us and could help my children overcome this pain 🙏🤍

Right now, LGBTQ+ refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp are suffering in silence. Many of us have been forced to flee our countries because of who we are only to face homophobia, starvation, and homelessness even here.

We sleep outside without proper shelters.

We struggle for food and clean water every day.

We have no access to work, healthcare, or safety.

Those living with HIV, pneumonia, and cancer are dying in isolation due to lack of treatment and discrimination. Every day feels like a fight just to stay alive. 💔

We urgently need support, visibility, and action from the global community. Your help whether through donations, amplifying our voices, or connecting us with humanitarian organizations can save lives.

Please don’t turn away. Stand with us. Share our story. Help us survive. 🕊️

Note; We don't have a campaign on that we can add to our posts so that we can get help through it. Please you can donate via worldremit on the mob number below and it will reach direct to us.

Mob; +254701366010

Zip code; 30500 , city; kakuma city, names; Samuel Napokori , country; kenya.

Any kind of support will mean much to us and life saving. Please you can also feel free to reach out to us on WhatsAp via the very number 🙏.

Thanks for your time.

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Zack (@lgbtqgorom) has asked me to make a post, because conditions at South Sudan's Gorom Refugee Settlement are extremely precarious for not only him, but his fellow queer refugees.

They not only had to endure the need to escape from where they live because being who they are was made illegal there, but also have to endure continuing hostility from their fellow refugees, in this place that is supposed to mean safety and hope for them, all while the camp lacks extremely basic necessities.

MY PERSONAL STORY AS A TRANSGENDER REFUGEE:

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Hello everyone! I'm Vivian [legal name is Abola], a transgender woman refugee, currently living in Gorom refugee camp in South Sudan with other LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers from Uganda, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, and Ethiopia. All of us were previously residing in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. 🌈

When I first came out as a queer person in my home country, Uganda, I faced a lot of discrimination, arbitrary arrests and assaults not only from law enforcement officers but also from members in my community including my friends and relatives. The dislike and homophobia was so intense that even my relatives and friends disowned and ostracized me. 🌈

As a result of the persecution (arbitrary arrests and assaults), discrimination, and the draconian homophobic laws, I fled Uganda to Kenya in 2021 and claimed asylum; I filed my asylum case with the UNHCR (the United Nations Refugee Agency) and the Government of Kenya. The Government of Kenya reserves the mandate of conducting Refugee Status Determination and granting refugee status to asylum seekers. 🌈

Unfortunately the Government of Kenya refused to grant me and other queer refugees, a Refugee Status Determination (RSD) interview because they didn't want to grant refugee status and thus legal residence status to queer asylum seekers. 🌈

Towards the end of 2023 when they (Government officers working in Kakuma refugee camp) explicitly told us (the LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers) to go away and find somewhere else to claim asylum and safety, I moved to South Sudan together with my fellow LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers and we sought asylum in South Sudan. Unlike in Kenya, the UNHCR in South Sudan is allowed by the Government of South Sudan to conduct the Refugee Status Determination (RSD) interviews using their International experts. Fortunately, the UNHCR in South Sudan granted me and my fellow LGBTQ refugees a Refugee Status Determination (RSD) interview which I passed and I was granted refugee status which meant a little bit of safety from continued persecution since I can't be deported back to Uganda because I am a recognized refugee. 🌈

I have been a refugee and an Asylum seeker for nearly four years in Kenya and South Sudan. I still face a lot of psychological torture and trauma as a result of the persecution I faced in my home country Uganda; I was also disowned and ostracized by my relatives and friends, a fact that is significantly contributing to the psychological torture that I am experiencing. 🌈

My unfortunate experience of persecution and discrimination has pushed me to becoming an LGBTQ rights activist and advocate. I dream about the day when I will speak for the voiceless queer people on the world stage. I hope for a world where no queer person has to forcefully leave the comfort of their home country to seek asylum in a foreign country in an attempt to save their lives, a world where no queer person is discriminated against, a world where draconian laws criminalizing homosexuality are a subject of history. Such a world is possible only when you and I join hands and resources and amplify each other's voices️‍. 🌈

While in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, I participated in a lot of advocacy and activism regarding LGBTQ refugee rights and safety. My advocacy work was documented on the Instagram account @sevencolorspectrumkakuma

Click the link below to check out the Instagram profile and see the work of my activism and advocacy while the LGBTQ refugee community was still residing in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya:

WHY YOU SHOULD DONATE:

We face numerous challenges. Mental health challenges such as psychological torture and stress are very common amongst us. We also face discrimination from the rest of the refugee population and the host community. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) provides financial support in the local South Sudan currency, the South Sudanese Pounds, an equivalent of only $10 per refugee per month for basic needs. This money can't sustain us for more than a day considering the high inflation in South Sudan where we are living That amount given to us in South Sudanese Pounds is too little to sustain a person for more than a day. Therefore there is a challenge of lack of basic needs like food, clean drinking water, clothes, decent shelters, healthcare, etc. There are a considerable number of LGBTQ refugees in the camp who suffer from diseases such as HIV/AIDS, asthma, epilepsy, sickle cells, and of recent, cholera has become very common. 🌈

As an LGBTQ refugee rights activist, a representative and one of the leaders of our community, one of my tasks is to advocate for the betterment of the living conditions of the LGBTQ refugees in Gorom refugee camp. To that end, I reached out to a well-wisher based in the United States last year to help us set up a fundraising campaign on the popular crowdfunding platform "gofundme" since someone in Africa can't create a fundraising campaign on the platform. On April 29th, 2025 they launched our fundraiser which you can donate to by visiting the link below:

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Your donations will be used to meet the basic needs of the LGBTQ refugee community in Gorom refugee camp such as food, vital medication, more decent shelters, etc. 🌈

No donation is small. Please donate and save a life today. Love and solidarity. 🌈