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Kaleidoscope Trust’s mission is to create a world where LGBTI+ people everywhere can live free, safe and equal lives.
Over the past decade, we’ve provided funding, training and platforms to over 120 LGBTI+ organisations delivering ground-breaking and life-saving work in some of the world’s most challenging environments. We’ve brought LGBTI+ voices, perspectives and priorities directly to the UK government and international leaders so the actions they take to protect and promote LGBTI+ rights around the world are a priority. And we’ve brought our civil society partners and governmental representatives together to build and sustain a global coalition for change in support of LGBTI+ people and communities.
Since first meeting the Canadian Prime Minister in 2018, we’ve deepened our partnership with the Canadian Government to deliver change for LGBTI+ people in the Commonwealth. With critical funding from Global Affairs Canada since 2021, we have shaped Commonwealth agendas and ensured Commonwealth leaders hear the voices and priorities of our LGBTI+ partners from around the world. We have provided needed resources to our partner organisations in Botswana, Jamaica, Namibia, and Pakistan. And we have helped sustain The Commonwealth Equality Network (TCEN), enabling it to transform into a network that delivers even more for its members through our collective advocacy and peer to peer exchange.
Last week, the Canadian Government announced further funding in support of our ongoing work fighting for LGBTI+ rights across the Commonwealth. We welcome this vote of confidence in Kaleidoscope Trust and in our work with our partners in TCEN and around the world!
Remarking on our continued partnership, Alex Farrow, our CEO, said:
“I am delighted by the Government of Canada’s announcement at CHOGM in Samoa, which I have just returned from. It’s especially important at a time when LGBTI+ rights are under sustained attack globally and governments are pulling back from their human rights support and obligations more generally.
This additional investment will allow us to build on our numerous successes over recent years – and to work to address the immense obstacles our global communities continue to face. We will accelerate our advocacy in the Commonwealth as well as our efforts to support and connect activists and organisations with those in power, so the Commonwealth and its member states take positive action on LGBTI+ rights as a priority.”
The pressing LGBTI+ human rights challenges of our day can only be solved through collaboration, whether that be with grassroots or international human rights organisations, governments and funding bodies – and people that really care, like you.
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