We urgendly need your support to secure good access to water! With this campaign we aim to establish good access to water for a queer community in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.

We are struggling for a better life of LGBTQ people in Kakuma Refugee Camp! There are approximately 350 LGBTI refugees and asylum seekers in Kakuma camp who fled from neighboring countries like Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Congo, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Somalia etc. All these LGBTQ refugees are classified as AT-RISK refugees due to stigmatization, stereotypes, marginalization, persecution and discrimination. Being a refugee in there imposes limitations upon LGBTQ refugees when it comes to accessing essential needs like safe shelter, food, safe water, access to employment opportunities and self-sustaining programs. 

Access to water is essential for bettering our condition! Currently, the biggest challenge in the camp is access to safe water. Access to water would tremendously assist in the current situation where living is challenging as people often travel longer distances out in the open seeking the scattered watering holes in the camp which are controlled and shared by despite the hostile and homophobic communities. Setting up and constructing a watering hole in a central place where most of the LGBTQI refugee collective resides would tremendously improve and limit the challenges that have for so long affected this already marginalised group of people.

Our Initiative: Installing a water tap and a watering hole! We have thus come up with an initiative to construct and set up a watering hole specifically for the marginalised LGBTQI refugees in Kakuma camp. At first a tapped-water installation is intended to provide access to safe water and for refugee households of about 37 individuals together with other neighbouring LGBTQI compounds.

The first installation of infrastructure for the water taps would cost around 140.000 Kenyan Shillings (~990 Euros). If we raise more money, we could even expand the access for more people!The problem is: Our community has very limited monetary means at the moment.

To realise the access to water and to contribute to our struggle, we thus seek your solidary support!

We ask you all to contribute to this cause and assist in this initiative monetarily to make access to safe water a less risky predicament for LGBTQI refugees in Kakuma camp. Any money, even if small, will be valuable to our struggle.

To make redistribution possible, the money is raised on our behalf by our comerades in Germany with whom we are continuesly in contact with. Your money will go to them and then immediately transferred to our account in Kenya.