Projects 

RISE the film

07/13/2021

Uganda has 1.4 million #Refugees as of 2021. of these 52% are womxn 23% are youth with majority being South Sudanese.

In June 2020 Access For All and Simma Africa Creative Arts Foundation, NGOs based in Uganda were awarded an Empowerment Grant of €25000 from VOICE GLOBAL to implement a 10-month project. They successfully implemented the Project for Refugee LGBTI sex workers living in refugee settlements around wakiso district in Uganda. The project has benefited...

Womxn

03/31/2021

We need to create more inclusive platforms for all #womxn in the #CreativeIndustry #transwomen #intersexwomen #bisexualwomen to produce authentic content about stigma faced and dreams of Queer Creative Womxn #WomxnsHistoryMonth

Rise

11/28/2020

Due to the closure of the Simma Africa Art Studio due to the COVID19 pandemic creatives attached to the organization found themselves jobless. They were forced to stay home, and this led to most members facing SGBV. For some, there were established mechanism for coordination around GBV and Injustices faced by minorities programming in their host...

We work with feminists aged 15 to 30. We take a holistic approach to tackling gender inequalities. Our approach recognizes that change is needed to support women and girls' awareness, capacities and abilities, and to create opportunities and an enabling environment for empowerment. We collaborate with feminist organizations, human rights activists,...

Intersex persons face violence, discrimination, stigma, harassment, and persecution on account of their sex characteristics, which do not fit binary notions of typical male or female bodies.

With Refugees

12/11/2017

Simma Africa's mission is to encourage creativity and production throughout the value chain of the creative industries, thereby helping to ensure access to decent jobs and to sustain-ably improve living conditions of Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Intersex Refugee Designers and Digital artists and their immediate environment.

Simma Africa has an ongoing economic empowerment project for LBTIQ persons in Creative Arts mainly fashion, design , craft making and hair dressing. The workshop has trained 247 LBTIQ refugee women in fashion since 2016. The trainees have the passion and skills to promote the Queer Fashion culture through fashion and design. Although they have the...

Our projects in Uganda so far have piloted extensive learning in developing this phase of the project, partnering with local sexual minority NGOs, dialogue with beneficiaries, Youth and local structures has been a significant internal source of learning.Economic empowerment is a key issue. The employment obstacles faced by LBTIQ refugee youth have...


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