🚨 URGENT STATEMENT: Read ARF’s full response to the UK Asylum Reforms here🚨
READ OUR END OF YEAR IMPACT REPORT NOW!
Welcome to the Annual Impact Report for African Rainbow Family in 2024. Over the period of this year, 2024, we have supported hundreds of LGBTIQ+ people seeking asylum and refugees around the UK, as well as lead on a number of key achievements in UK and European asylum policies.
A word from our CEO and Founder, Aderonke Apata:
“I would like to extend a word of gratitude to each and every supporter of African Rainbow Family in 2024. In a year that was markedly hostile for people seeking asylum, our community has risen in solidarity and compassion on numerous occasions and our appreciation for that cannot be understated. In reflection of our milestone 10 years of work, we hope to continue growing for another 10 years and into the foreseeable future”.
ACCESS TO
JUSTICE
We are advocating for the rights of refugees and people seeking asylum in the UK to access legal support.
In the UK, the legal aid system is currently in crisis. Sadly, this has disproportionately affected members of the queer community who are within the asylum system, with 57.3% of LGBT+ people seeking asylum that we support having no solicitor or caseworker. Furthermore, it has been expressed by many of our service users, especially those of trans experience, that it is even more difficult to find a legal representative who understands their experience and can reflect this in their case and time spent working together.
