Our they-story
Rainbow Africa Initiative–Uganda (RAI-Ug) began in 2016 as a radical act of solidarity: a network founded by rural Ugandan queer feminists, sex workers, and allied organizations confronting state violence, patriarchal exclusion, and the devastating impacts of laws like the Anti-Homosexuality Act (2014). Our membership, spanning individuals and community organizations, mobilized to address the systemic denial of safe spaces, SRHR services, and economic justice to rural queer communities, sex workers, and marginalized womn.
Today, RAI-Ug drives change through our member-powered network, leveraging collective strength to advance intersectional rights, health, and resilience across rural Uganda.
RAINBOW AFRICA INITIATIVE
OUR VISION
A world where rural queer feminists, sex-worker youth, and marginalized womn in Africa thrive freely in societies that celebrate diversity, uphold justice, and guarantee equal access to health, safety, and opportunity.
OUR MISSION
To empower our member network, rural queer individuals, sex workers, minority womn, and marginalized communities to advance their rights, health, and dignity through advocacy, mental health support, education, and grassroots leadership.
OUR GOAL
To achieve SRHR accessibility for rural marginalized queer feminists and sex-worker youths communities in Uganda.
OBJECTIVES
SRHR & ECONOMIC JUSTICE
Leverage member networks to expand access to queer- and sex worker-inclusive SRHR services and micro-grants, fostering health equity and autonomy.
FEMINISM & ADVOCACY
Challenge discriminatory laws and amplify rural queer and sex worker voices in policy-making to dismantle systemic oppression and advance inclusive governance.
INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES
Build solidarity through safe spaces, cultural festivals, and media campaigns with members that celebrate queer and gender diverse identities, sex workers, and marginalized womn, fostering visibility and acceptance.
MENTAL HEALTH & CRISIS SUPPORT
Provide trauma-informed peer counseling, emergency response services, and holistic mental health care to address stigma-induced trauma and foster resilience.
GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP
Train rural activists in advocacy, economic justice, and community organizing to ensure marginalized voices lead local and national movements for change.
CORE VALUES
Radical Inclusion: Center voices of rural queer people, sex workers, and marginalized womn.
Collective Care: Prioritize well-being, safety, and healing as acts of resistance.
Feminist Solidarity: Stand in intersectional unity against all systems of oppression.
Member-Led Power: Ensure members own, shape, and lead the movement.
Courageous Integrity: Speak truth to power, even amid repression.
OUR BOARD

ANNA XWEXX MORENA

STEVE MULEME

IRENE NABATANZI

JAY OTIITA

KEITH KARAMAGI

GAFIDYN RAE

DR. ANDREW KIYEGA

MONALISA AKINTOLE

KAROL AMOLLO

JAY MUKISA

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