Help LGBTQ Asylum Seekers in Matamoros
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Rainbow Bridge is a grassroots effort organization sponsored by Resource Center Matamoros –RCM- in aid of the LGBTQ community, who are seeking asylum and who have been admitted to the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) and were returned to Mexico pending their legal process in the United States; putting their physical and mental health at risk, forcing them to live in extreme conditions of insecurity along the U.S.-Mexico border; violating their rights and risking even their life.
Rainbow Bridge seeks to promote inclusion, diversity, safety and visibility through values, principles and advocacy: educational, labor, legal, technological, art, beauty, health and entrepreneurship to help minimize and alleviate the risk of stress and the difficulties currently encountered by members of the LGBTQ community within the MPP while they wait for their asylum process.
Rainbow Bridge will develop projects for the creation of job exchanges, training, legal assistance, safe housing, food, access to physical and mental health; as well as generating a non- discriminatory living space for workshops and activities that are for the benefit of members of the LGBTQ community within MPP.
How are we going to complete Rainbow Bridge goals?
Initial funding source through RCM
Partnerships with medical and psychological
services organizations.
Partnerships with organizations currently providing food for migrants.
Alliances with legal services organizations in Mexico and the United States.
Rainbow Bridge goals are:
Monthly food bag delivery.
Creation of a fund to support the payment of rents in decent and safe housing. - Access to psychological care.
Access to general and specialist medical consultations.
Purchase of medicines.
Delivery of STI and HIV prevention methods.
Access to HIV testing, medicine and care.
Assistance for filling out and translating asylum applications and evidence.
Assistance in the search for probono lawyers in Mexico and the United States. - Assistance for processing basic Mexican documents (CURP, IMSS, RFC)
Creation of trainings, courses and workshops.
Trainings, courses and workshops.
English Acrylic nails Cooking
Personal finance Speaking in public
Organizer
Gaby Zavala
Organizer
Cesar Chavez, TX