Donate to Rainbow Railroad

Since our founding in 2006, Rainbow Railroad has helped more than 800 individuals find a path to safety to start a new life free from persecution. Can you imagine living in fear of persecution, torture or murder? Can you imagine going to jail for who you are or who you love? That is a reality for so many LGBTQI individuals around the world.

Rainbow Railroad facilitated travel and post-settlement support for a group of Chechen newcomers that arrived in Toronto. These Chechens were involved in a crackdown against the LGBTQI + community that resulted in en mass kidnapping, torture, and arrests. We worked with 519 on a yearlong support plan that began in 2017 and stretched into 2019. The bulk of the program took place in 2018. The project was unique to this period and will not be recurrent.

RRCDN began the BVOR program with the Canadian government. This is a refugee resettlement program where the Canadian government and UNHCR jointly select LGBTQI + refugees for resettlement that Rainbow Railroad then accepts and supports in settlement. Operationally this program is run very similar to the PSR program that we have been doing for years. This program will continue until it is no longer available by the Canadian government.

For more information, please visit the Donate to Rainbow Railroad page

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Since our founding in 2006, Rainbow Railroad has helped more than 800 individuals find a path to safety to start a new life — free from persecution.Can you imagine living in fear of persecution...

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