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DONE FOR APRIL!!!

❗ HELP TO FUND AN EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR TRANS PEOPLE FROM RUSSIA

Note: I don't represent anyone from Centre T, I'm just a random person who wants to share and help

Centre T has a shelter in Armenia for trans people that left Russia due to transphobic laws and political persecution, and is currently financially struggling. Because Russian people are mostly poor and can't afford donating, I'm asking everyone on fedi to help to cover at least April.

Regular donations are a priority, but one-off are welcomed too

DONATE: buymeacoffee.com/centret

RAISED: €1,517 of €1,463

🎨 BONUS (optional): if you donate, I might offer drawings in return
For that, look at my PWYW FA page furaffinity.net/view/56045610/ and contact me with proof that you've donated to Centre T

SHARE: Additionally made posts on Bsky and FA

FA: furaffinity.net/journal/110919
BSKY: bsky.app/profile/vv0ltz.neocit

FRIENDS OF THE SHELTER FOR TRANSGENDER PEOPLE CAMPAIGN Friends of the Shelter already funded March 2025! And committed to 937 euro in monthly donations. To fully fund Yerevan shelter in a stable way, we need another 1463 euro in recurrent donations. Your 50 euro means 200 euro for us in terms of what costs we can cover! Your donations cover rent for a three-room apartment (shelter capacity is up to 6 people at a time), utilities, household chemicals, basic food and medicine for those who are unable to afford those costs. It also includes the support of the project by a psychologist and coordinator. Center T helps transgender people in Russia and those in exile in other countries. The Russian government persecutes LGBT people by making xenophobia its state policy. Most often our shelter residents are people who had to flee Russia urgently because of state persecution or domestic violence, as well as transgender people from Armenia itself. Let’s create some stability for an emergency shelter for trans people together!
The only specialized shelter for trans people from Russia may close due to lack of funds. Transgender people fleeing from mobilization, police persecution, violence and bullying end up here. It is difficult for them to find housing, even more difficult - work, they are under severe stress and may not survive without help in a foreign country; however, the chances of survival at home are even less. Lena was drafted into the army despite her neurodiversity and a complex of serious illnesses, including autism, ADHD, and social anxiety disorder. "My medical record somehow miraculously “got lost” somewhere, and the psychiatrist, after listening to all my complaints, gave me the highest fitness group, refusing to prescribe additional examination." Lena left Russia with the help of Center T and is now in a shelter in Yerevan.
"It is very difficult to find a job here, especially if you are not a local. In the five months I have spent here, I have not managed to find a job, although I tried to respond to all possible vacancies. I was rejected for various reasons: because of my appearance, because I do not know the language, because they found a person with experience, because they found a local applicant, and so on. Accordingly, I have no opportunity to rent a place to live or buy food for myself." Over 100 people have passed through the shelter in 2.5 years. The shelter costs 2,400 euros per month, which includes rent and utilities, necessary food and medicine, help in getting out of the crisis, psychological support, and doctor visits. Of this amount, we have already collected 937 euros in regular donations and 117 one-time donations for April! We need another 1,463 euros in regular donations to fully cover the shelter's expenses for the coming months. There is no hope of receiving grant support now, and if we fail to establish a system of regular donations, such people will have to be turned away. And they will be left alone with the Russian state.
#trans#Transgender#urgent
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Reminder that the goal is to cover costs for April, i.e. not much time left, so that's why I keep self-reposting it this much

Thank you all for meeting half of the goal in this short amount of time, we can do this!

Mar 20, 2025, 12:29 AM·Public·Moshidon
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Waiting for the response from Centre T, the goal is almost met, so it should be fine. Will post an update when I get info

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UPDATE: I asked Centre T and got a response that they're still in need of support. At the moment €1,387 raised of €1,463, that is 95% of the goal for the April

Here's a post from Centre T's founder, Yan Dvorkin

buymeacoffee.com/centret

Yesterday was Transgender Visibility Day Yes, as always I write everything out of date Every month we collect numerous testimonies of how visibility in Russia for transgender people turns into humiliation, violence, persecution. Often the difference in risks between LGB people and trans people is that it is impossible to hide. It is impossible to become similar to your passport data, it is impossible to become invisible in an unfriendly environment, and with changed documents - for government agencies. This means that it is impossible to safely contact any government agencies. For more than three years now, we have been working every day to change and compensate for this reality. So that people at least survive. So that they have someone to turn to for help. So that they have a place to hide from persecution. This is an emotionally and psychologically difficult, exhausting job, where it is impossible to dose the load, impossible to put the phone down. The job, because of which I lost many things dear to me and the opportunity to return to Russia. As did all my colleagues.
But let it keep me going that I know how much good we are doing and that we are really making a difference. But what really finishes us off is not yet another story of violence that we have to deal with, but the need to still find money for all our work. Thinking about whether we are closing the shelter today or whether it can survive for another month? (How can you even run a shelter project without some kind of financial safety net??? And there really isn’t one.) Thinking about where to get money for evacuation in the middle of the night? Where to get money for a doctor’s consultation in the middle of the night? Thinking about how our employees can even live on their salaries? And what is the next one that needs to be cut because there is no more money?... This is the part of the job that really destroys me. For three years, I have felt a constant, unrelenting anxiety about where to find financial support and how to live if we fail at this task. On the occasion of yesterday's International Trans Day of Visibility, I want to ask you: support our work. It is vital for many people, and we cannot stop doing it. But we are regularly left without money.
We are currently collecting for the shelter project. We have 181 euros left to fund the project in April. And in May we will have to start collecting again (1463 euros), since most donations are one-time. And the shelter's work is regular, and it never ends. I want to finally sleep peacefully. I want to know that the shelter will be available to people in April, and May, and June. And, oh my God, in December! If you are ready to support the project (sorry, only transfers from foreign cards are possible, and this is also a pain in the ass for us), then please, better subscribe for the minimum amount, but regularly. So we can at some point come to the point where regular donations cover the needs of the entire project, and we just work calmly. And in a wonderful world it would be cool if we had money left over from this collection for emergency aid (which is always needed!) Help me bring this beautiful world closer and my healthy sleep at night, without chronic anxiety. https://buymeacoffee.com/centret
#mutualaid#trans#transgender
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