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URGENT!!SHELTER AND FOOD FOR TRANS WOMEN!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!
Thank you so much for your love and support for Trans Women. The year 2021 was not easy for them. They went through a lot but your love and support give them STRENGH to keep struggling to survive and HOPE for a better future. Your Love and Support gave them smile! You made their Christmas and New Year Eve MAGICAL!!!!!!!


Dear supporters So far RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO registered urgent assistance request from 65 Trans women who lost everything including their home burned and destroyed by the volcano lava. These Trans women fled the City of GOMA because there are still earthquakes and threat of a fatal second volcanic eruption! Now it will be more than a week that they are homeless some in  SAKE a village 15 kilometers away from the City GOMA and others in RUBAVU the border City of RWANDA. They don’t have anything to survive! RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO just decide to give priority to the 3 actions that should be take urgently that are the transportation fees to BUKAVU for all 65 Trans women(1,475 dollars) et the second one is the renting fees of two large houses for 3 months that will be used as SHELTERS for all 65 Trans women(11,600 dollars) and the third action will be providing the SHELTERS with a Food supply for 3 months to feed all 65 Trans women that will cost 6,925 dollars.

As the fourth action is not an EMERGENCY RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO will consider raising funds later for that fourth action providing a mini grant for all 65 Trans women after the 3 months transition at the SHELTERS

So the total of these 3 EMERGENCY ACTIONS is 1,475 +11,600 + 6,925 =20,000 dollars

Dear supporters RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAUKO needs  20,000 dollars urgently as the situation is getting worse for our trans sisters!

RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO is on the ground trying at his best to support Trans Women deeply hit by this Humanitarian crisis!

On this PRIDE MONTH just think about these vulnerable Trans women that are helpless and need your help and support! For this month of PRIDE remember those ones that are still struggling to survive and Please donate with what you can and spread to word out! And Please feel free to contact RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO  if you have any question or want additional information.

RSM | Helping African LGBTQI+ People (rainbowsunrisemapambazuko.org)  [email redacted]

(20+) Rainbow Sunrise Mapambazuko/LGBTI -RDC | Facebook

@jeremie_safari






URGENT UPDATE!!!


Hi dear supporters, many of you are asking how the funds raised will be use. We are here to respond to all your questions for more accountability and transparency. First all of tell me, someone who is oppressing and discriminating you, will they help you if you are in a situation you need urgent assistance? Obviously, they will not! DOES IT MAKE SENSE? So do Understand the same way that the homophobic D.R.CONGO Government and its political leaders  will never ever help in any way the LGBTQ Community that they are oppressing and discriminating since so many years! So that being said, you can imagine now how in these Humanitarian crises how the marginalized LGBTQ Communities can be disproportionally affected and especially Trans women that are the most vulnerable!

So since this Volcanic Disaster, RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO is on the ground and doing a great job to assist the most vulnerable and affected ones: TRANS WOMEN. But it’s an emergency and there are now 65 Trans women that are now homeless and need urgent assistance!40 fled in the village of SAKE 15 kilometer away from GOMA City with no food and 25 others fled  in Rubavu, the neighborhood City in Rwanda closed to GOMA  with no food. And here are Emergency actions that will be taken by RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO with funds raised:

            1.  First Assist all the Trans folks by paying their transportation fees from the City of GOMA to the City of BUKAVU where they will be safe as there are still earthquakes and high risk of a second fatal volcanic eruption in the city of Goma. That will be 15 dollars the cost of the Transportation by boat for each one and the total will be 15x65=975 dollars and we should rent two buses that will take them from the SAKE Village and in Rubavu to the beach in GOMA where they will take the boat to BUKAVU as there is the LAC KIVU between GOMA and BUKAVU and all transportations are by boats as airplane transportation is very expensive. The  renting cost of two buses is 500 dollars. So the total will be 975+500=1,475 dollars.

          2. Second action will be to rent two houses in BUKAVU with a large capacity that will be used as SHELTERS to host  65 TRANS Folks and other oncoming housing emergencies requests and you know now renting houses is expensive in D.R.CONGO especially a House with more than 4 rooms! So the average price is 1,200 dollars/month for a  large house with 4 rooms and we should rent for 3 months because it will take time for things to get back to normal in GOMA after this Disaster that destroyed so many houses so Trans folks will need 3months of transition in the SHELTERS. And the total for each House will be 1,200x3=3,600 dollars plus a 1,200 dollars deposit of one month that will be 4,800 dollars so the Total for two Houses will be 9,600 dollars. And we should buy mattress for all 65 trans folks and others utilities for the shelters and also water and electricity bills for 3 months and all will cost 2,000 dollars. So the total will be 9,600+2,000=11,600 dollars.

        3. Third action will be to Create a food canteen with the basic foods and RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO will buy bags of rice, cassava, corn flour, cassava flour, milk powder and bags of embers. Cartons of sugar as well as cooking oil, beef, fish, as well as Chicken. And RAINBOW SURNISE MAPAMBAZUKO will provide the SHELTERS with a FOOD Supply for three months to feed all 65 trans folks. All these items will cost 6,925 dollars.

       4.  Fourth action will be to provide each TRANS after the transition of 3 months at the SHELTERS, a mini Grant to help them build a new life as they lost everything in the VOLCANO DISASTER. So each Trans folks will receive a mini Grant of 2,000 dollars to help them build a new life and help them cover rent, medical and living expenses. So the total will be 2,000 x 65=130,000 dollars.

             All the total costs of these urgent actions will be : 1,475+11,600+6,925+130,000 = 150,000 dollars

RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO will be updating you each step of this actions for more accountability and transparency. And if you have any question or need more additional information, please  feel free to contact RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO at these links:

RSM | Helping African LGBTQI+ People (rainbowsunrisemapambazuko.org)  [email redacted]

(20+) Rainbow Sunrise Mapambazuko/LGBTI -RDC | Facebook

@jeremie_safari




I’m Michel NFUNDIKO a native from D.R.CONGO and an  LGBTQ activist living in Washington DC in the USA and I’m Organizing this fundraiser on behalf of RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO that is a nonprofit organization in the D.R. CONGO that works for RIGHT and EQUALITY of TRANS COMMUNITY and for which I used to work for as an Advocacy Officer when I was in D.R.CONGO. Since GOFUNDME is not available in AFRICA, RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO contacted me and gave me authorization to organize this fundraiser on their behalf as they are raising funds for the TRANS folks in the City of GOMA in the Eastern Part of the D.R. CONGO  that are deeply affected by Mount NYIRAGONGO VOLCANIC ERUPTION since yesterday Saturday May 23, 2021.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/05/23/khaliah-ali-congo-volcano-eruption-newsroom.cnn 

https://www.voanews.com/africa/eastern-drc-volcano-erupts-thousands-flee-goma 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/22/nyiragongo-volcano-erupts-in-eastern-congo 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57217326 

The Mount NYIRAGONGO is one of the world’s most active volcanoes and is considered among the most dangerous. Yesterday night, It has erupted for the first time in nearly two decades, sending lava sliding down the hillside towards the eastern city of GOMA and forcing thousands of Goma residents to flee the City on foot since Saturday night carrying mattresses and other belongings.   

TRANS folks that are always been marginalized, discriminated against, and persecuted, find themselves even more vulnerable and helpless because many lost their homes and everything burning and destroyed by the volcano lava. Many are homeless now without food and water and they can't count on any aid from the homophobic D.R. CONGO Government and are thus left to fend for themselves.

The situation is getting worst, and they need urgent help! Since yesterday night RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO  received calls from 60 TRANS folks among of them 45 TRANS WOMEN  for  Urgent housing and  food assistance as well as medical care but RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO  is not able  to answer to all these request since they don’t have enough means that's the reason why they are raising funds to urgently assisting all TRANS folks in GOMA.

The situation is alarming because RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO still receiving calls and request for urgent assistance and most of them are from TRANS women that are the most vulnerable as they are currently on the street and don't have anywhere to go as they lost everything destroyed by the volcano lava. They really need urgent assistance.

All the funds raised will be transferred to the  the RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO Bank account in D.R.CONGO  that just set up an executive crisis committee that will be responsible for implement the following actions with the Funds raised to urgently respond to this crisis:

1.First Assist all the Trans folks by paying their transportation fees from the City of GOMA to the City of BUKAVU that is the closest city to GOMA and where they will be safe as there are still lava and sulfur gas from the Volcano and also earthquakes in the city of Goma that can be harmful.

2. Second action will be to rent two houses in BUKAVU with a large capacity to host more than 60 TRANS Folks and other oncoming housing emergencies requests.

3. Third action will be to buy Food for all TRANS folks.

4. Four action will be to provide each TRANS a small fund to help them build a new life as they lost everything, when the situation will come back to Normal in GOMA.

Please stand for the TRANS Community in D.R.CONGO and DONATE today to save their lives.
You can visit RAINBOW SUNRISE MAPAMBAZUKO web site at: www.rainbowsunrisemapambazuko.org

Here are some links of International Medias about the Volcanic Eruption in GOMA D.R.CONGO since yesterday:
 


Organizer

Michel Nfundiko
Organizer
Washington D.C., DC

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