Project

Help defend and protect LGBTQIA rights in INDIA.

Host Organization: BUDDHA OUTCAST SOCIAL SOCIETY - BOSS Tiruvannamalai District, Tamilnadu, India http://www.bossngo.blogspot.com

About

Our BOSS NGO fighting for the same human rights for all in India. Our ongoing struggle is to ensure equality. Your donations are crucial for supporting local activists that will bring more resources and opportunities. This leads to expansion and rejuvenation of LGBTQIA + movements, providing help for millions of LGBT+ individuals in India. Help us continue to provide resources and opportunities for such change-makers for the long-term sustainability of the LGBTQIA + movements.

Need

Members of the Indian LGBTQIA community face many challenges to leading safe, happy, and fulfilling lives. They face arrest, imprisonment, loss of employment, disowning by their families, denial of access to health services, expulsion from school, and physical attacks. This is compounded by the anti-LGBTQ legislation that results in severe persecution for their community members. Investing your time, energy, and capital in LGBTQ rights will help their community overcome these social and legal hu

Long term impact

Our project tackles the challenges faced by LGBTQIA+ adolescents and youth by implementing comprehensive suicide prevention and anti-homophobic bullying programs. This project aspires to inspire and transform the lives of LGBTQIA+ adolescents and youth in India. By delivering messages of hope, acceptance, and empowerment, we envision a future where LGBTQIA+ adolescents and youth are celebrated throughout Indian society. Our long-term goal is to contribute to a society where every LGBTQIA .

About the Organization

Mission Our mission is to bring about unity within the poorest section of the society to build up human and material resources and to enhancement of social capital through forming people's organisations by establishing good rapport with people, organising women, children, landless labourers, etc of the poorest of the poor communities into associations/federations. Objectives Organising different Community Based Organisations (women, children, and landless labourers of plains and Tribal) into association at village level and cluster (block) level. Propagation and promotion of Environmental education. Capacity building of women, children, youth and landless labourers to actively participate in the development of their own village. Disseminate necessary information on Nature through seminars, Cultural Melas and campaigns. Net working with other like minded NGO's in order to expand and to propagate our approaches as well as to learn from them. Strategies. Advocacy and lobbying . Networking . Formation of People based Groups . Philosophy BOSS NGO believes in people's strength and capacity to facilitate their own process of development. It respects people's knowledge. Hence BOSS NGO approaches begin with people and end with people.

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  • LGBTQIA+ Equality

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Total Goal
$15,000
Remaining Goal
$14,955
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Domestic and international programs and services housed within organizations, addressing specific needs of community groups.