Grocery Fund for Sex Workers of Color

Hello. My name is Venus. I am creating this fundraiser to continue the work of providing fresh groceries, hygiene products, medicine, and supplies to sex workers of color with a high priority for Dark skin Black SW. This fund will also cover our winter shopping trips that will provide NEW winter coats, winter clothing, boots, etc. to those in need. This work was launched March 2020 when the pandemic began to support a community of people in New York devastated by the global pandemic and continues today. With violence from clients, violence from police as POC, and online censorship on the rise this work needs to continue. There are a lot of people who depend on this fund to feed themselves and their children through these dark times.

This is direct food to mouth work. Folks experiencing food insecurity reach out directly to me to be added to a shopping trip. For security reasons I require people to reach out via social media where I can see who they are. Together we buy the stuff each person needs and they go home with their groceries and items the same day. This fund also covers transportation back to their home if necessary and defense tools. I don’t make people that need help fill out stacks of paperwork or beg for help. Each person is vetted and that is it.

Please help me continue doing this work for the rest of the year especially now that censorship during a pandemic is adding to housing and food insecurity that Sex Workers of color are facing right now. It is important that we continue this work especially right now. Please help me make this possible.