URGENT!!! Lesbian couple in Africa need help to escape starvation

Can you help? A young lesbian refugee couple is facing starvation in Kakuma refugee camp in N-W Kenya.

Kakuma (meaning nowhere in Swahili) was established in 1992 to host unaccompanied young boys fleeing conflict in Sudan and other surrounding countries. It is now one of the world’s largest refugee-hosting areas, with almost a quarter of a million refugees and asylum seekers, mainly from South Sudan and Somalia.

The Kenyan government manages the camp with  support from the UNHCR and other humanitarian agenceies. However, US funding cuts under Trump have drastically reduced aid and food sources, causing widespread hunger and psychological distress among residents, who depend on the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP). The WFP has had to cut rations to 30% of the minimum recommended amount a person should eat to stay healthy. Medical care at the camp is extremely  limited. The Kenyan government is struggling to shelter over 850,000 refugees and asylum seekers across the country, and is now taking over the role of the UNHCR. This is alarming because the Kenyan government has already declared it will no longer assist LGB refugees.

FiLia in the UK established the Kakuma Campaign in 2020, with the aim of supporting lesbians in Kakuma who are escaping violence and lesbophobia in their home country. The UNHCR sends them to an area in the camp that identifies their sexuality to other refugees in the camp, making them easy targets of continual violence and abuse.

FiLia has reached out to CoAL,  as options are short for them to help these 2 young lesbians. They would like to escape to South Sudan where there is a chance of being resettled but still there are many dangers, FiLia is very low on funds and it would take approximately £200 (A$350) to get them to their destination.

If you can donate, please use the FiLia Kakuma Campaign donate page or  click on this link.