Through the creation of the Rainbow Riots LGBT community centre in Uganda, we are so proud that we have managed to help some of the most vulnerable members of the Ugandan LGBT community. One of them, Musooke, was in a desperate situation, when we offered him a safe place to stay at the centre. Here is a message from Musooke to you all:
”I take this opportunity to thank all who donated to Rainbow Riots’ first LGBT community center in Uganda. It has really changed our lives, especially mine.
I lost my job and home because they realised that I was gay. I was about to commit suicide because of the difficulties, discrimination and torture I went through. Family and friends neglected me because of my sexuality, but it's only Rainbow Riots community centre that has given me a second chance of life.
I thank Rainbow Riots’s founder Petter Wallenberg and the Ugandan Rainbow Riots team for helping me to rise back to a normal life, because I had totally lost everything.
I also really want to thank everyone who donated towards the LGBT community center which was set up to help us who face bad circumstances because of being gay in Uganda. Please continue supporting us.”
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Rainbow Riots' founder Petter Wallenberg has been nominated for an award at Sweden's largest LGBT awards ceremony QX Gaygalan!! The category is "Keep up the good work" 💥🎉
You can vote for him here: www.qx.se/gg
International human rights organisation Rainbow Riots has opened Uganda's first LGBTQ community centre, in Kampala. To keep the community centre alive, we need your help. Be a part of this historic project by donating today. Donate here: rainbowriots.com/portfolio_page/east-africas-first-lgbt-community-center/
"LGBTQ people in Uganda live under constant threat and as late as last Saturday 100 people were arrested in a homophobic police raid in Kampala. Now Swedish Petter Wallenberg (founder of Rainbow Riots) has opened a community centre in the country where LGBTQ people can find refuge."
Sweden's biggest gay magazine QX wrote about our new LGBTQ-community centre in Uganda. Read here:
www.qx.se/samhalle/190317/rainbow-riots-nya-center-ger-ugandiska-hbtq-personer-en-trygg-plats/
