OUR SERVICES
LGBT Voice Tanzania provides a wide range of services to support the LGBTQ+ community in Tanzania.
We believe in a fair and equal society where all LGBTQ+ people can achieve their full potential. Our work is as vital and urgent as ever. The LGBTQ+ community still faces health inequalities, persecution and discrimination. Through our services we reduce isolation amongst our communities, help people feel safe, confident and in control of their lives, and enable people to flourish.
Every year we give a voice, provide help and offer hope to more than 200 people. We work in partnership with others to build strong, cohesive and acceptable LGBTQ+ communities and promote attitude change in our society.
Our services and activities include: a range of support groups;
- Legal Aid
- Face-to-face counselling;
- A sexual health program
- A substance-misuse project
- Security training
- A range of guides and resource
- Trauma counselling
- Temporary shelter
- Emergency support
- Policy advocacy.
UPDATES IN THE NEWS
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A Tanzanian man was last month sentenced to 30 years in prison after a court convicted him of violating the country’s sodomy law.
According to LGBT VOICE Tanzania, an LGBTQ and intersex rights organization, the Kilwa District Court sentenced Muharami Hassan Nayonga to 30 years in prison after it convicted him of violating Sections 154 and 157 of the country’s Penal Code that criminalize so-called unnatural offenses and “indecent practices between males. -
Tanzania’s health ministry justified closing down the facilities by accusing them of “promoting homosexuality” because they provided lubricants, condoms and counselling to MSM
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The country's deputy health minister Hamisi Kigwangalla said on Twitter that the government was investigating "the homosexuality syndicate" and would arrest and prosecute those involved in the gay sex business.
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Tanzania has launched yet another crackdown on LGBT advocates in the country, threatening to arrest and expel them from the country
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Tanzania has threatened to arrest and deport those campaigning for gay rights and de-register organisations protecting homosexual interests
