{"id":929,"date":"2015-04-09T01:07:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T01:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsnewundergroundrailroad.org\/?p=929"},"modified":"2015-05-05T03:53:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T03:53:57","slug":"and-no-hope-a-plea-from-one-of-our-conductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/and-no-hope-a-plea-from-one-of-our-conductors\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd no Hope.\u201d A Plea from One of Our Conductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I chatted with one of our conductors today. He wrote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cI have 27 people to cross.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> It is increasingly becoming dangerous.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> The 27 people are Catholic students aged 20 to 35 from a seminary and a nun\u2019s house.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> They are 19 gay men, 4 lesbians, 1 transman and 3 transwomen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cWe are living in a small house.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> One meal a day.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> No lights.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> No power.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> And no Hope.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cSo risky.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> If there is a way u can help, please help. We need to get them out.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gabi:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cDid specific incidents or threats happen to them for them to run?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conductor:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cMob justice before they connected with me.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Undressing the trans to check their genitals.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Rape attempts on the lesbians to cure them of lesbianism<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Some have been assaulted physically.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FriendsNewUndergroundRailroad-logo-200px.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-563\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FriendsNewUndergroundRailroad-logo-200px.png\" alt=\"FriendsNewUndergroundRailroad-logo-200px\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>So we need to raise $1404.00 to move these 27 people in hiding out of danger.<\/p>\n<p>We also have another conductor who has five lesbian college students hiding in another rural part of Uganda whom we need to move. This will cost an additional $925.00.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #34783d;\">So we need $2329.00 to fund the escape of these 32 LGBT people.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Please help us. Every donation \u2013 large and small &#8211; helps.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Donate here via PayPal:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=MLJJ9UY5Z2NRS\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-164 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PayPal-Donate2FriendsNewUndergroundRailroad.png\" alt=\"PayPal-Donate2FriendsNewUndergroundRailroad\" width=\"145\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And <a title=\"Donate!\" href=\"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/donate\/\">here<\/a> for information about sending a check.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<br \/>\nGabi Clayton<br \/>\nFNUR project manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I chatted with one of our conductors today. He wrote: \u201cI have 27 people to cross. It is increasingly becoming dangerous. The 27 people are Catholic students aged 20 to 35 from a seminary and a nun\u2019s house. They are 19 gay men, 4 lesbians, 1 transman and 3 transwomen. \u201cWe are living in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appeal","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","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=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}