By Mariam Mganza | Director Lesbians and education department
LGBT -identified Youth in Tanzania routinely experience direct and structural discrimination, persecution and violence due to lack of awareness of LGBT issues and extensive social stigma, at all levels of government and in society. They experience reduced access to healthcare, rights violations by police (often taking the form of extortion and physical and sexual violence),extensive discrimination in employment, education,and are stigmatized in most other areas of social life
The number of LGBT youth who are expelled from school is increasing, LGBT VOICE Tanzania has already identified 75 youth who are out of school just because they are LGBT.
Currently we are working on partnering with Children Education Society so that all the LGBT youth who are located in Dar es salaam should attend classes at CHESO.
So far we have raised $440 which is enough to sponsor one LGBT youth to attend training and obtain skills, we are therefore going to sponsor Ally a gay youth to attend training for six months.
There is still a great need for funding for us to sponsor 53 LGBT youth who are in need of training so that they can obtain requisite skills as entrepreneurs to be self employed, employ others and be marketable wherever they find themselves.
Please keep supporting this special project which will build the well-being and future of more than 52 LGBT Youth in Tanzania.
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