Dear Friends,

Thank you for supporting LGBTQ+ compassion in action. In this issue: 

  • May 12-22 Travel to Cuba with RWF
  • Helping the LGBTQ Community in Ukraine
TRAVEL TO CUBA - May 12-22, 2022
Join Rainbow World Fund on our ninth annual humanitarian journey to Cuba May 12-22, 2022. Encounter a new land and a people in a way that values them, deepens your spirituality, broadens your worldview and begins to heal the world.  

Our trip focuses on Cuba's history, culture, politics, and spirituality. We will learn from the Cubans about the realities of their country. We'll visit projects that serve the Cuban people and meet with members of the LGBTQ community, politicians, artists, scientists, and leaders in many fields.

We will attend LGBTQ Pride events in Havana and march in solidarity with our Cuban brothers and sisters during the "Conga" - the annual Pride celebration. 

We will learned about Cuba's colonial past to its revolutionary present, and how the complex historical relationship between the U.S and Cuba remains ever-changing.

Every trip is unique. Here are a few of the many highlights from past trips: 

-Spending time with members of the Cuban LGBTQ community
- Meet with Mariela Castro and human rights activists 
 - Visit schools, medical clinics & the Institute of Tropical Medicine
- Help deliver medical and educational supplies
- Snorkel the reefs of Varadero
- Meet with members of Parliament and with political dissidents
- Visit ecological areas/learn about the Cuban organic movement
- Attend a concert by Bueno Vista Social Club
- Learn how Cuba has survived post USSR and under US embargo
- Visit the Bay of Pigs
- Meet members of the Cuba 5 - former US political prisoners
- Explore historic Old Havana
- Cruise Havana in a 1950s American Car
- Enjoy the white sand beaches and clear blue water at Varadero
- Visit the National Museum of Fine Arts/Museum of the Revolution
The cost of our 11day/10 night trip is $2,800 and includes a Cuba travel visa (required), all hotels/accommodations, in-country transportation by private van, all meals (except one), all gratuities, translation and guide services, speakers fees, entrance fees to special events. It does not include round trip air transportation from the USA.
SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE
The belief that we are all one human family is fundamental to Rainbow World Fund and our efforts. We are unified with our world community in concern for the people of Ukraine. Hundreds of Ukrainians including children have been killed, 1.7 million people have fled to Poland, and hundreds of thousands are internally displaced. Major cities are under seize or have been captured. Russian nuclear forces remain on high alert.

RWF is raising funds to support the LGBQT community in Ukraine. During this crisis, already vulnerable LGBTQ Ukrainians are even more at risk to be further marginalized and scapegoated.

We are funding the evacuation of members of the LGBTQ+ community from Kyiv, Kharkiv, and other cities to Lviv and Poland. Please donate today! 

Please be part of the LGBTQ community's response by making a donation to Rainbow World Fund’s Ukraine Emergency Fund.

100% of your donation will fund these life saving actions. Specify “Ukraine” when you donate online or or when sending a check to RWF, 4111 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94114. 
This is a time to remember who we really are — to call upon the better angels of our nature, to respond with courage, compassion, and generosity. We hope that you will be able to reach out and make an effort that will promote the well-being of our global family.

Your effort will not only provide needed aid but will create and share the hope that is essential to our survival, our healing, and humanity. 
LGBTQ COMPASSION IN ACTION
RWF is the world's first LGBTQ- based humanitarian aid organization. Our mission is to promote peace, unity and hope by leading the LGBTQ movement in participating in humanitarian relief efforts. Founded in 2000, RWF has donated over $5 million of life saving aid and 75,000 volunteers service hours. RWF is all-volunteer run.

Bring new hope to our friends and family around the world. Put your tax-deductible gift to work immediately by donating online or mail your donation to Rainbow World Fund, 4111 - 18th Street #5, San Francisco, CA 94114.