Help defend and protect LGBTQ+ rights in Tanzania

We introduced the LGBTQ rights fund project to bring new resources and new opportunities to support local activists as a key to the expansion, rejuvenation and sustainability of LGBTQ's movements and organizations, both now and in the future. Because currently there are no resources to support local activism and speed the fight against homophobia and Transphobia that is increasing in our community; we do believe that obtaining resources will fill the gap and provide more access to fundamental human rights and equal access without discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation

There are many individual LGBTQ activists and groups representing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer people nationwide but the work on the ground is very difficult, because activists suffer police harassment and intimidations at the same time fearing going to jail but they can not afford to hire legal officer to handle their cases

 Most LGBTQ activists have not been trained on organizational, informational and personal security and they are not highly educated, they work on voluntary basis with the little knowledge they have. There is an urgent need for training LGBTQ activists and also facilitating them to have offices where they run their activities effectively

Our plan is to provide grants 8 groups in 8 districts of Tanzania main land so that they can be able to pay office rent and train their members on organizational, informational and personal security that will help build stronger activists before the end of 2016.

Let me take this opportunity to appeal to the general public for support, so that we can be able to build a strong LGBT movement in Tanzania.

 A comment from Sagina: “Imagine coming out as Gay and working as an activist in a country where homosexuality is criminalized with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, having no permanent home no office, no computer no phone. I’ve been working as an activist for the last three year but I find it difficult to do what I should because of limited resources. Thanks to LGBT Voice for creating this project, hopefully we will get resource to help us work effectively”.