Refugee Support

If you are an at-risk LGBTQ+ person that needs urgent relocation, please directly contact any of our partners that could help get you on a list for private sponsorship to come to Canada.

Refugee Support

If you are an at-risk LGBTQ+ person that needs urgent relocation, please directly contact any of our partners that could help get you on a list for private sponsorship to come to Canada.

If you are an at-risk LGBTQ+ person that needs urgent relocation, please directly contact any of our partners that could help get you on a list for private sponsorship to come to Canada:

Rainbow Refugee Society

A Vancouver-based charity that supports people seeking refugee protection based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or HIV status.

Capital Rainbow Refugee

This Ottawa-based organization is committed to providing safe haven to sexual minority refugees fleeing persecution.

MOSAIC

A Vancouver-based multilingual organization that is a Sponsorship Agreement Holder (SAH) which is now the primary SAH used by Rainbow Refugee Society

Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria (ICA)

A Victoria-based organization is a SAH. ICA has an annual process (Expressions of Interest) to accept requests for sponsorship.

Reaching Out Assisting Refugees (ROAR)

A Nanaimo-based volunteer organization that partners with Brechin United Church in Nanaimo, to bring refugees safely to Canada.

Rainbow Railroad

A Toronto-based charity that provides emergency Travel Support for LGBTQI+ folks at risk.

Metropolitan Community Church (MCC)

A Toronto-based LGBTQ+ church that is an LGBTQ+ exclusive Sponsorship Agreement Holder (SAH) for refugees in all of Canada.

Rainbow Refugee Association of Nova Scotia (RRANS)

A Nova Scotia-based charity that privately sponsors LGBTQI+ refugees seeking to resettle in Nova Scotia.

Universalist Unitarian Church of Halifax (UUCH)

A Halifax-based church is a SAH to select and settle refugees primarily in Nova Scotia.

Reaching Out Winnipeg (ROW)

A Winnipeg-based program promoting the resettlement of LGBT refugees and asylum seekers in Winnipeg.