BE A LIFELINE TO LGBTQ+ COMMUNITIES & CHILDREN
Dear Friends,

As we approach the end of the year, I would like to thank you for all of your support in 2022. Your generous donations made miracles happen!

RWF is a lifeline to our LGBTQ+ and non-LGBTQ brothers and sisters around the world. 

• In Ukraine, RWF is helped evacuate LGBQT+ people and is funding safe shelters and emergency aid to those who remain. 

• In India, RWF is providing shelter and psychological support to transgender persons and survivors of human trafficking.

• In Central America, RWF funds an underground railroad that helps transgender woman from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala reach safety, build community, and establish new lives.
• In Cuba, RWF provides vital aid for the LGBTQ+ struggle for civil rights. RWF also funds summer camps for HIV-positive kids and kids with cancer.

• In the Middle East, RWF helps LGBTQ+ refuges escaping immanent threat in Iraq and Syria. Dozens of refugees that RWF has helped now live in Canada, Europe and the USA.

• In Uganda, RWF provides support to LGBTQ+ people by funding shelter, safe passage, and the medical needs of people fleeing danger.

• In the USA and around the world, RWF provides emergency aid following fires and other natural disasters.

• RWF helps orphans and displaced children in India, Mexico, and Uganda by funding education, housing and medical care.
In addition to saving and improving lives, RWF's work strengthens our community by increasing LGBTQ+ visibility, serving as a platform for our community's compassion and concern, changing how the world sees LGBTQ+ people by building bridges with the world community.

If you have not taken the time to make a donation, please do sp today, this is the last week to make a donation before the 2022 tax-year ends.

Your gift of $50, $100, $500, $1,000, or more will mean that those nearby or in far-distant lands will feel the support of the LGBTQ+ community.

Please consider joining us on a humanitarian journey to Cuba or Guatemala in 2023.

In Solidarity,
Jeff Cotter,
Founder & Executive Director
BEYOND TOURISM: CUBA & GUATEMALA
Experience Cuba: May 11-22, 2023 - Learn about Cuban history from its colonial past to its revolutionary present and how the complex historical relationship between the U.S and Cuba remains ever-changing. March in the LGBTQ+ Pride parade (Conga) in Havana! Learn more here.

Discover Guatemala: July 20-30, 2023 - Walk with a legendary people! Learn about Mayan spirituality and the realities of the developing world. Explore human rights issues and deliver medical supplies ... be forever changed. Learn more here.