Since the beginning of 2025, we provided safe shelter to 25 LGBTQ+ forcibly displaced members of the community due to violence and discrimination. An additional 10 asylum seekers fleeing persecution received short-term and transitional accommodation. All residents accessed psychosocial support, food, legal guidance, and hygiene items.
In Rongai and Kiserian areas with high reported LGBTQ+ harassment we trained over 50 participants on safety planning, self-advocacy, and emergency response strategies. These workshops restored community members’ sense of agency and provided tools for navigating daily threats.
We organized mental health awareness forums in Dagoretti, Kajiado, and Nairobi, directly impacting 40+ individuals. These workshops focused on trauma recovery, suicide prevention, and emotional resilience. LGBTQ+ wellness champions and mental health professionals co-facilitated the sessions.
With support from Pride Toronto, we hosted inclusive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) workshops. Participants received free condoms, lubricants, and culturally affirming information on STIs, HIV prevention, and safe sex.
Through our partnership with Jinsiangu, we have been able to put in place a financial tracking system helping on improving our accountability and transparency.
Our advocacy is not an afterthought it is at the heart of our mission. Between January and June 2025, EEA-H spearheaded multiple independent and impact-driven advocacy actions aimed at transforming the systems that continue to marginalize LGBTQ+ asylum seekers and refugees in Kenya.
Transgender Day of Visibility 2024 Their Light Still Shines On In 2024, as we marked the Transgender Day of Visibility under the theme Their Light Still Shines On, our gathering was filled with both strength and sorrow. While we remembered those whose journeys ended too soon, we also mourned a profound and personal loss our beloved SweetLove.
SweetLove was more than a friend. She was a darling of our community gentle, radiant, and unafraid to love loudly in a world that often tried to dim her shine. The laughter, kindness, and resilience reminded us daily why visibility matters, and why every trans life deserves dignity, safety, and joy.
Though her absence is heavy, the spirit continues to guide us. SweetLove’s light has not gone out; it lives on in our memories, in our advocacy, and in every step we take toward justice and inclusion.
On this day of visibility, we did not only see trans lives we honored them, protected them, and carried their light forward. And as we spoke their name, we affirmed that SweetLove’s light still shines on.
Every May, we join the global community in marking the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHO). For us as ITGNC women asylum seekers and survivors of violence, the day is not only symbolic it is deeply personal.
We gather in our shelter spaces to share stories, heal, and organize quietly. Through testimony, dialogue, and creative expression, we turn trauma into strength and invisibility into resistance.
For us, IDAHO is more than a commemoration it is a declaration: our survival is our victory, and our resilience is our resistance.
To safeguard, empower, and advocate for ITGNC women asylum seekers and refugees, ensuring their dignity is restored, their voices are heard, and their rights are defended.
To create world where ITGNC women asylum seekers and refugees live free from violence and fear thriving in dignity, equality, and safety.
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LEGAL & RISK COMPLIANCE OFFICER
LIVELIHOOD OFFICER &
SHELTER MANAGER
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