It is Lesbian Visibility Week. African Rainbow Family is taking this week to educate to educate the public on the lives of Black and Brown coloured lesbian women who are either refugees or going through through through the asylum system. A lesbian is a woman who is attracted to women emotionally, physically and sexually. Most …
Introduction About this report This report provides a brief introduction to Manchester Migrant Solidarity (MiSol) and African Rainbow Family (ARF) and an overview of the work the organisations have carried out in 2020. It describes the impact that MiSol/ARF’s work has had on its Members and what has been learned from this. The report has …
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An Aspen Card, as described by Privacy International “is a debit payment card given to UK asylum seekers [people seeking asylum] by the Home Office. The Aspen Card provides basic subsistence support, but purchases on the card are closely monitored by the Home Office, making it an insidious surveillance tool.” I believe that changes should …
We are recruiting for new Trustees to join our Trustee Board! African Rainbow Family (ARF) is a small registered charity (registration number 1185902) that support LGBTIQ people of African heritage and the wider Black Asian Minority Ethnic groups. ARF was established in 2014 in the wake of some Commonwealth countries in Africa’s toxic and draconian …
Seeking asylum is not a crime. As a lesbian woman who has to prove that I am a lesbian in order to get protection here in the UK, I have to provide evidence of my sexuality.
History gives meaning to the present. History is a reference when we need to gain strength.
Covid-19 Impacts on LGBTIQ People Seeking Asylum. Find out how to reach, support #LGBTIQ people seeking #asylum including non-LGBTIQs during and beyond the pandemic. #Covid19 #pandemic
African Rainbow Family: Submission on Unequal Impact of Covid-19. People seeking asylum have a range of added inequalities of social isolation, lack of housing, finance and access to healthcare. LGBTIQ people seeking asylum are in particularly, hardest hit.
“At a point I put my hands up and gradually I started to accept myself, sounds easy but there were and are still moments I fall back because of homophobic comments and all that stuff but I always come back stronger after I look within.”
African Rainbow Family’s Organisational First Response: Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) Ongoing arrangements for the office, meetings and support for members: As a small Charity we are aware of the need to act to support and protect our members, coordinators, volunteers and staff especially those of us who are or can be ‘vulnerable’ for whatever reason. We …
