ONGOING SUPPORT NEEDED!

JANUARY 2026

Year in review:

In 2025, directly through this campaign, we have helped keep at least 37 people fed, housed, able to access medical care, & out of jail despite the targeting of LGBTQ+ folks for incarceration & bigoted violence. Of those, 11 have been able to travel to seek refuge abroad in Canada. This is critically important work. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support in helping my (chosen family) brother Ashraf & our dear intergenerational community of gay, queer, trans, & HIV+ folks survive this oppressive & harrowing time.

From Minneapolis to Congo to Palestine to Sudan, none of us is free until we all are free!

With such deep gratitude,

Mordechai (he/she/it/they)

Campaign update:

With Ramadan coming up (2/17/2026-3/19/2026) we hope to raise funds for the break fast meals Daaku, Futaali, & of course Eid at the end of the month, in addition to the usual food/rent/medicine & other basic needs.

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Please, on behalf of Ash, on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community, as a fellow human being, stand in solidarity with the beautiful and resilient queer refugees of East Africa. If you can’t donate, share this with your friends, family, followers—anyone you can think of. Whether it’s $1 in donation or mere exposure, every little bit counts. There is no such thing as doing too little; doing anything is better than doing nothing at all.

All proceeds will be sent to Ash’s account, to cover basic needs such as food, water, shelter, access to healthcare, as well as testing for malaria, typhoid, etc.

Any help will be gladly received.

Thank you again for your generosity and compassion. Together, we can alleviate the suffering of queer refugees enduring unimaginable hardships.

-Ashraf Kyazze, queer refugee in East Africa.

Dear friends: Even as we struggle to meet our basic needs & find stability & purpose in our lives in this time of collapse & intensifying oppression, we must share what we can with our queer siblings locally & around the world. So I’m fundraising on behalf of my friend Ashraf (Ash) & his fellow queer refugees in East Africa. I’m dealing w my own medical hardship (cancer), but I have my material needs more than met right now. Please show up for our African LGBTQIA+ siblings facing violent homophobia & dire living conditions. Love & solidarity to you all.

-Mordechai M., a transmasc queer in the so-called USA