Wanted: 1,000 people to donate £5 a month
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Please support Peter Tatchell’s campaigns for human rights and LGBT rights, in Britain and worldwide.
To make a donation: click here
Peter Tatchell writes:
I started my work for human rights over 40 years ago, in 1967, so that we could all be free and live in a better world. In the last four decades we’ve made great progress. Many injustices and inequalities have been overturned.
But more needs to be done to secure food, clean water, housing, education and health-care for everyone on this planet – to stop war and to secure equal rights and freedom for victimised peoples and nations.
For LGBT people in Britain, the battle for equality is not yet fully won. There are still the bans on same-sex marriage and on gay blood donors. LGBT refugees are often sent back to violent homophobic countries. Our equality laws include exemptions that allow religious organisations to discriminate.
As well as my campaigns in the UK, I am working to support human rights defenders and LGBT people in countries like Uganda, Iran, Jamaica, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia and Zimbabwe.
I have only two assistants, when I need at least four to help run my campaigns effectively.
I am deluged with requests for help from asylum seekers, bullied school kids, and victims of harassment and miscarriages of justice.
Because I lack sufficient staff support, I am working 12 to 18 hours a day, seven days a week. I’m often tired and ill. I desperately need more staff support, to relieve the pressure on me and to increase the effectiveness of my campaigns.
I am seeking a thousand people to give £5 a month or more by standing order, which would help fund office space and the cost of hiring extra staff to help me.
I invite you to make a donation to my human rights fund (details of how to donate below).
Give whatever you can afford and please persuade your friends to do the same. I need to raise £60,000 a year in regular income to sustain my work in the long-term. With your support, I intend to keep campaigning for another 30 years.
The Peter Tatchell Foundation campaigns for human rights and LGBT rights in Britain and worldwide.
To make a donation: click here
For info about my human rights campaigns: www.petertatchell.net
To sign up to receive Peter Tatchell’s campaign bulletins, click here
Please specify whether you want to receive my campaign updates on all human rights issues or only LGBT ones.
To those of you who already donate to my fund: a very big thank you.
But can you please persuade two or three friends to also become regular
donors by standing order? That would be a huge help.
Your support is treasured.
Best wishes and appreciation, Peter Tatchell