{"id":953,"date":"2015-04-30T02:47:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T02:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsnewundergroundrailroad.org\/?p=953"},"modified":"2015-05-05T03:44:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T03:44:02","slug":"every-day-i-cry-for-the-thousands-of-queers-who-are-still-stuck-in-uganda-and-cant-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/every-day-i-cry-for-the-thousands-of-queers-who-are-still-stuck-in-uganda-and-cant-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Every day I cry for the thousands of queers who are still stuck in Uganda and can&#8217;t leave.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #34783d;\"><strong>A message from Meddie Mukasa, now living in Burundi:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;If anybody ignored the plight of the LGBTQ in Uganda, it could be a big mistake, in fact it will be like a crime against humanity. Every day I cry for the thousands of queers who are still stuck in Uganda and can&#8217;t leave. L, hope you are holding up good amidst challenges with almost no resources. Keep the faith and keep the hope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_955\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MeddieMukasa-inBurundi2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-955\" class=\"wp-image-955\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MeddieMukasa-inBurundi2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #34783d;\">Meddie Mukasa in Burundi<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Are FNUR and the Quakers still helping? Those guys rock. I am forever grateful to them. I found new love and am enrolling for a course in Beauty and styling, you know my passion. I am sending out some pictures to show am still alive and that I made it safely from Kigali to Bujumbura.&#8221;<\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_956\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 460px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MeddieMukasa-inBurundi1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-956\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MeddieMukasa-inBurundi1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"MeddieMukasa-inBurundi1\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\"><span style=\"color: #34783d;\">Meddie Mukasa in Burundi<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/donate\/\">make a donation<\/a> to support the work of the Ugandans who are helping people like Meddie Mukasa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Thank you!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A message from Meddie Mukasa, now living in Burundi: &#8220;If anybody ignored the plight of the LGBTQ in Uganda, it could be a big mistake, in fact it will be like a crime against humanity. Every day I cry for the thousands of queers who are still stuck in Uganda and can&#8217;t leave. L, hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appeal","category-the-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","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=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}