Help Queer Sudanese Refugees Z & Co. Survive!

Z’s Group

My name is Mae (Mehron), I live in New York City, and I am raising emergency survival funds for several groups of queer refugees escaping violence in South Sudan.

 This fundraiser is for the group represented by my friend Z.

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WEEKLY NEEDS

TOTAL: $1,197

1) $609, food
2) $120, medicine
3) $432, sanitary pads
4) $36, children’s milk

RENT is $200 MONTHLY. 

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ONE-TIME FUNDS NEEDED:

$150, curtains
$100, bedsheets
$50, carpet
$50, utensils

PURCHASED, THANK YOU!:

4 mattresses

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UPDATES

6/4/2025

Z and friends need $200 for EID this weekend! Please keep them in your heart!

5/25/25

Launched today! This story text will likely change as I develop their campaign further with details, stories and images, as well as more specific and itemized budget of needs and costs.
For now, I just want to make sure the crucial details are clear and get the ball rolling.

I first met these groups on Bluesky, and have since spoken with them extensively, verified their identities, and have been grateful to be able to help them survive some truly awful circumstances.

All donations are welcome, every penny makes a difference; while these groups are working toward long-term security, survival funds are also necessary in the meantime.

These are diverse groups of wonderful people who, for safety reasons, cannot show too much of their identities; those who feel safe to do so have shared harrowing and human stories of perseverance against all odds.

Challenges of daily life in their refugee camps include

* Feeding their group, including children;
* Securing safe and sustainable housing, including furniture and utensils;
* Finding medical supplies, including those for menstruation and childcare;
* Keeping their phones in working order and connected to internet to access care and support just like this.

Finding work, much less maintaining it, is difficult to impossible in their current situation, living out of communally shared tents. They want to find secure housing that will allow them to not only survive, also to thrive and experience the joys of a safe livelihood that we all should enjoy.

I am gathering funds and sending them directly to the groups;

* Some funds will be used for more immediate survival needs, such as food, cooking materials and utensils, emergency medical bills/supplies, etc;
* Other funds will be kept and accumulated into a longer-term survival fund, to pay for safe housing and to empower this group of survivors to not only live, but thrive.

Please reach out to me for any questions at all, I’m happy to verify their authenticity as well as share what of their stories they allow.

Thank you so much for making a difference ❤️