Our preferred Charity Partner
Diva Destinations is proud to partner with GiveOut
GiveOut is a new charity supporting LGBTQI human rights activism around the world. Across the world, LGBTQI people face serious human rights abuses for being themselves. Activists are doing vital work to protect and improve the lives of LGBTQI people, but they are under-resourced. GiveOut has been established to help address this problem, bringing new resources into the movement by enabling individual donors to give in one place to support LGBTQI human rights activism worldwide.
Individuals donate to GiveOut, and the charity distributes these funds as grants to LGBTQI activist organisations around the world, ensuring that they have more of the resources they need to defend their communities and campaign for change. From training grassroots activists in Southeast Asia and building movements in East Africa, to raising the visibility of trans communities in the Caribbean and campaigning for decriminalisation of same-sex relations in Sri Lanka, a donation to GiveOut has impact across the LGBTQI movement globally. In recognition of its innovative model, GiveOut won the 2018 Third Sector ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ Award. For more information, please visit GiveOut
Individuals donate to GiveOut, and the charity distributes these funds as grants to LGBTQI activist organisations around the world, ensuring that they have more of the resources they need to defend their communities and campaign for change. From training grassroots activists in Southeast Asia and building movements in East Africa, to raising the visibility of trans communities in the Caribbean and campaigning for decriminalisation of same-sex relations in Sri Lanka, a donation to GiveOut has impact across the LGBTQI movement globally. In recognition of its innovative model, GiveOut won the 2018 Third Sector ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ Award. For more information, please visit GiveOut
Our Partnership with GiveOut
We have been looking to support a charity for a while now and during the summer of 2018 I was fortunate enough to meet Rupert Abbott, Executive Director of the new Charity GiveOut at a local LGBTQ Networking event in Brighton. When Rupert started telling me about the LGBTQI causes that GiveOut raises funds for around the world we wanted to help.
Throughout the world activists are doing vital work to protect the rights of LGBTQI people, particularly in countries where being LGBTQI is still against the law and punishable by imprisonment or worse. Unfortunately this much needed work is underfunded with little or no financial support to progress and establish long term help for our communities in these countries. Our partnership with GiveOut allows us to be involved in helping our community where dignity and freedom does not exist. Our donation is small but vital. If you can give to GiveOut then please do so and help us reach our 2019 target.
Throughout the world activists are doing vital work to protect the rights of LGBTQI people, particularly in countries where being LGBTQI is still against the law and punishable by imprisonment or worse. Unfortunately this much needed work is underfunded with little or no financial support to progress and establish long term help for our communities in these countries. Our partnership with GiveOut allows us to be involved in helping our community where dignity and freedom does not exist. Our donation is small but vital. If you can give to GiveOut then please do so and help us reach our 2019 target.
2019 FundraisingWe want to raise in 2019 a total of £2000 for GiveOut. We would love you to help us achieve our goal. To get us off the starting blocks Diva Destinations is donating £200 to go towards that target.
Throughout the year we will update you on the various projects being funded through GiveOut donations. |
Join Diva Destinations in supporting GiveOut, When you make a donation you will be able to choose whether Gift Aid can be claimed on your donation, meaning GiveOut can claim an extra 25p for every £1 you give. Alternatively, to set up a standing order or to make a bank transfer to the fund please contact the GiveOut team here
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£2000 Target for 2019Please donate as much or as little as you can Every time someone donates on our page here then we will update our target amount so you can see how you are helping struggling LGBTQI communities across the world.
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Here are just some of the projects that GiveOut have provided grants for. Please go to their website for the full list of grants given to other projects worldwide GIVEOUTGRANTS
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Location: Sri Lanka
Focus: Decriminalisation of consensual sex-same relations Website: equal-ground.org LGBTQI people in Sri Lanka face discrimination at every level of society, with the Penal Code criminalising same-sex identities. But there is a window of opportunity, following recent Indian and Caribbean rulings, to decriminalise same-sex relations in Sri Lanka. GiveOut will support Equal Ground as it implements a research-based social awareness campaign to change public opinion towards LGBTQI people and pave the way for decriminalisation of same sex relations. This is expected to be a muti-year decriminalisation campaign and we are proud to offer donors the opportunity to support it. Location: India
Focus: Legal representation and policy reform for the trans community Website: clpr.org.in In partnership with Akkai Padmashali and other trans activists, CLPR helped litigate on behalf of the trans community in India in the Section 337 proceedings that ended in the landmark Supreme Court ruling decriminalising same-sex relations. In India, hijras, a community which includes trans and intersex people – face forced back-alley castrations, sexual violence, humiliation and homelessness, and are often coerced into sex work. GiveOut’s grant will go towards CLPR’s core costs, allowing it to continue its work providing free legal representation to trans people across India. Location: Southeast Asia
Focus: Grassroots LGBTQI groups Website: aseansogiecaucus.org There are currently major concerns in the global LGBTQI movement around the provision and protection of rights for gender and sexual minorities in Southeast Asia. In Indonesia, for example, the situation for LGBTQI people is worsening, with raids on LGBTQI gatherings, proposals to criminalise same sex relations in a revised Criminal Code and the establishment of anti-LGBTQI task forces. ASEAN SOGIE Caucus supports activists with less access to resources and opportunities for training by providing small activity grants for seminars, workshops and trainings, and GiveOut’s funding will go to the ASC’s Supporting Capacity of Local LGBTIQ Activists initiative. Under the project, ASC provides financial and technical support to local activists working across Southeast Asia. After a 15-day application window, ASC received 38 eligible applications. Of these, ASC selected five organisations to support from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam. The funded projects include:
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