UHAI - EASHRI are philanthropic activists in a region where our identities as LGBTIQ+ people and as sex workers are criminalised through punitive laws, where governments actively shut down spaces for movement organising to end discrimination in access to services and healthcare, where societal and public opinion upholds exclusion from families, exclusion from faith communities and denial of basic rights such as access to dignified livelihoods, access to fair hearing and justice by law enforcement.

Our ways of working are summed up by our values represented by the Swahili words that make up our name. These inviolable commitments express who we are and how we engage with our communities and the societies that they live in.

UHAI provides Eastern Africa’s sexual and gender minorities and sex worker communities flexible funding and responsive capacity support, and supports research, Pan-African engagements and convening. By engaging local activists to determine our grant making, our approach to social change ensures that those living the struggles have agency to fund action.