Here are organizations to support and ways to help during the ongoing refugee crisis. ⤵️
on behalf of local LGBTQ+ organizations that are “preparing to receive LGBTIQ people in search of shelter, safety and security.” Since vetting the legitimacy of organizations that we might not be familiar with can prove challenging in times of crisis, OutRight could be a good choice to share funds with to ensure that aid will be going to organizations that need it.
“As we know all too well, in times of crisis, LGBTIQ people who are already marginalized face higher risks and cannot count automatically on access to humanitarian and/or social assistance,” the organization wrote on its donation page. “Already, people are leaving Ukraine's capital Kyiv and the eastern part of the country for, at the moment, safer rural areas and the western parts of the country, while neighboring EU countries work to prepare shelters for an influx of displaced people.
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