What we do

We support people to be safe and to challenge injustice

We support LGBT+ people in Uganda, including a safehouse where people can live in safety, and where others can come for food and medicines. I am Dee, and I helped set up the safehouse for my LGBT+ brothers and sisters. Some of our brother and sisters have been thrown out from the family home and have nowhere else to turn to. Many of the women in the safehouse have been the victims of ‘corrective rape’ where a man has raped them to try and ‘convert’ them to being straight/heterosexual.

We now have two safehouses, and also help some people who live on their own or in couples around Kampala.

We want to:

  1. Provide safe houses for LGBT+ people so that they are not homeless, and to help get people of out of the country once they are on a government list of known gay people
  2. Provide for basic needs such as food, water, HIV treatment and COVID vaccines for the safehouses
  3. Provide longer term prospects for those in the safehouses through work and sustainable income projects
  4. Work with our lawyer to provide a defence for people when they are accused of being gay. Often the state does not have good evidence, so if we can prepare a defence then we can help avoid imprisonment.
  5. Educate our wider communities to change attitudes so that they start accepting LGBT+ people, which in time will help us change the law.

Any support you can give us, through connections, advice, funding, resources or equipment or any other ways you can help, would be very welcome