The most important thing I’ll ever ask you to read
⏳ 30 second read…
Art is my life. But when I see amazing people like Beth Raps create a promise to raise funds for a refugee project that will make a real difference and not get absorbed by a charity CEO’s salary, I just had to share.
Beth runs RAISING CLARITY, and she’s one of those rare people who actually puts her energy where her mouth is. Not performatively. Not for clout. She just gets on with making things better, and she’s bloody good at it.
She’s committed to raising $5,250 for a small, community-based solar installation in a refugee camp in Kenya, run by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees. She’s already 40% there and the deadline is tomorrow, so this is proper urgent.
Here’s why it matters.
The community this serves is made up of queer refugees. They’ve already been through enough just to end up in the camp, but being queer is criminalised in the countries they’ve fled. Even inside the camp they’re still targeted. Still bullied. Still assaulted. Still not safe.
The solar installation will power security lights. That means safety at night. It’ll also provide the means to boil drinking water, which is scarce and expensive in the camp. Not freely provided like you’d assume. There are more benefits too, and you can read about them on the GoFundMe page.
Beth said she’d raise this by the end of March and she means it. If you can chip in, do it today.
Thanks
SLART