{"id":897,"date":"2015-02-03T16:07:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T16:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsnewundergroundrailroad.org\/?p=897"},"modified":"2015-05-01T17:49:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T17:49:29","slug":"mukwenda-elijah-through-thick-and-thin-i-was-finally-accepted-and-am-living-happily-in-norway-a-friends-new-underground-railroad-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/mukwenda-elijah-through-thick-and-thin-i-was-finally-accepted-and-am-living-happily-in-norway-a-friends-new-underground-railroad-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukwenda Elijah: \u201cThrough thick and thin, I was finally accepted and am living happily in Norway.\u201d \u2014 A Friends New Underground Railroad Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_899\" style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MukwendaElijah-IMG_00001567.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-899\" class=\" wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MukwendaElijah-IMG_00001567.png\" alt=\"Mukwenda Elijah\" width=\"294\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mukwenda Elijah<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Could you believe me if I told you that without the love, care and passion of FNUR to help the fleeing queers from Uganda, I could be dead by now. After being exposed publically for being gay in May\/14, I was short of options.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #34783d;\"><strong>I wanted just to die but having been a client to one organization which was serving queers in my areas, I approached and told them, my life is at danger and immediate risk. This was after my rental house was burnt down by a gang of homophobic thugs.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yes, am so grateful to FNUR for what they did for me. Through thick and thin, I was finally accepted and am living happily in Norway. The opportunities here are endless but I have to learn the Western culture and also the Norwegian language.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Thanks once again FNUR.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Mukwenda Elijah<br \/>\nOslo Norway<br \/>\n23<sup>rd<\/sup> Dec 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0###<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Please make a donation to support the work of Friends New Underground Railroad so that we can help other people like <\/strong><strong>Mukwenda Elijah.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/donate\/\">https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/donate\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Thanks!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Download Mukwenda Elijah&#8217;s story in PDF format <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MukwendaElijah-ThroughThickAndThin.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could you believe me if I told you that without the love, care and passion of FNUR to help the fleeing queers from Uganda, I could be dead by now. After being exposed publically for being gay in May\/14, I was short of options. I wanted just to die but having been a client to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}