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When Adebayo Chris Katiiti first arrived in Edmonton, Alberta, from Uganda last year, he had no idea he'd be one of the city's first gay refugees.
"My community had almost lost hope," says Katiiti, CEO of RaricaNow, which has received a $250,000 grant from Canada's Foundation for Black Communities to house 2SLGBTQ+ refugees who have fled anti-gay laws in African countries, per the CBC.
"The people who are going to be in this housing system come from countries where it is illegal to be gay and some of them have faced discrimination in the shelters," Katiiti says.
"We hope that this will create a sustainable housing solution for marginalized communities."
Most of the refugees have arrived from Uganda, Nigeria, and Gambia, where anti-gay laws have made same-sex marriage illegal.
Katiiti says the number of refugees served by RaricaNow has grown from 45 to 200 in the past four months, and the organization has struggled to keep up.
The project will house up to seven refugees for months at a time and provide health, employment, settlement, and counseling services.
The FFBC was launched in 2020 after a global pandemic and the murder of a black man in Minneapolis by police.
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