This document discusses several NGOs that support transgender rights in India, including Lakshya Trust, Sangama Foundation, The Humsafar Trust, and Sahodari Foundation. It provides details on the services each organization offers, such as counseling, health services, legal advocacy, and community outreach programs. The document emphasizes that transgender people face exclusion, violence, lack of access to education and healthcare, and restricted rights. It encourages support through donations, sponsorships, and volunteer opportunities to empower the transgender community.

1. NGOs supporting for
Transgenders.
Ajay Singh Rathore

2.  Why LGBT (Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transgender) need
support ?
 Lakshya Trust.
 Sangama Foundation.
 The Humsafar Trust.
 Sahodari Foundation.
 Your suppot.

3. Why LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender) need support ?
 Most neglected and stigmatized people,
 Marginalized and pushed to the extremes,
 Exclusion from family and society,
 Lack of protection from violence,
 Restricted access to education; health services;
& public spaces,
 Exclusion from economy,
 Exclusion from employment and livelihood
opportunities,
 Restricted rights of citizenship,
 Restricted participation in decision-making
processes.

4. LAKSHYA TRUST
 Inception in 2000,
 Working on the issue of MSM (men having sex
with men),
 Commanding three(3) major cities of Gujrat state
of India- Vadodara, Surat and Rajkot,
 More than 179 PEs (Peer Educators),
 A project team of 83 personnels,
 Promotion of Scientific researches thus
increasing safe sex and health seeking
behaviors,
 National Surveillance Site,

5. Ageing with Pride- LGBT
Seniors.
 The old age home for- LGBT Srs.- Prince
Manavendra Singh Gohil,
 Focus on Young age- Who disinherited from their
homes,
 Srs. LGBTs do not have access to Health
Insurance or Ration Card,
 Voice against Domestic Violence,
 Financial support,
 Medical and Health Care.

6. SANGAMA FOUNDATION
 Organization for individuals oppressed due to
their sexual preference,
 Founded in 1999, under Karnataka Societies
Registration Act-1960,
 Operating in Bangalore in addition to Mysore,
also operates in Trichur, Calicut and Trivandrum
in Kerela and Krishnagiri in Tamilnadu,
 Bilingual organization- Kannada & English,
 Emphasize the concerns of sexuality minorities,
 Sexualities’ minorities rights with information and
education,

7. Services
 Clinical services,
 Bangalore- Head office plus four(4) zones,
 Each zones having trained counselors,
 Care, Support, Information and Referral Services,
 DIC- Drop-in Centers,
 Provide Information, Support and Resources,
 Games, Cultural events, Television programs and
Competition such as Rangoli,
cont.

8.  Screening of Documentary films, Cinema and
Workshop Discussions,
 Library,
 Legal and Advocacy support,
 Production of Films:
1-Many People Many Desires,
2- A Human Question.

9. THE HUMSAFAR TRUST
 HST was set up in 1994,
 Three men in a Chai-shop decided, they needed
a support system for Gay men and Men who like
other Men,
 Work involves- Sexuality, Gender, Health &
Human Rights,
 Huge family of 266 people working full time and
peers on 23 projects,
 In Dec. 1994, HST organized India’s first ever
conference of the Gay community,

10.  Advocacy,
 ‘Bombay Dost’- 1st registered LGBT magazine launched
in 1990
 Workshops on Fridays,
 ‘The Humsafar Way’- community mobilization &
Awareness building,
 Humsafar Centre & Health-related Projects,
 Counseling and Voice Mail Help Line,
 Care & Support Program,
 The Nutrition Program,
 Humsafar Parivar Credit Society.

11. SARODARI FOUNDATION
 Formally registered the organization in July, 2008.
 Run by a TG woman- Kalki Subramanaium,
 Self-funded,
 Projects:
A) Butterflies Project,
B) LPAT (Liberation performing Arts Troup),
C) Project Kalki,
D) Thirunangai- Matrimonial Site for TGs,

12. Issues they work on:
 Discrimination,
 Employment,
 Education,
 Homelessness,
 HIV Care and Hygiene,
 Depression and Low Self Esteem,
 Hormone Pill, Tobacco and Alcohol Abuse,
 Penectomy,
 Marriage and Adoption,
 Documentation problem,
 Ageing,
 Female to Male TG people.

13. Sahodari in Media- In Newspapers &
Magazines
‘Transwomen- The
hunt for dignity.’
Sahodari’s Street
theatre event.-
New Indian
Express.
Participation
in Chennai’s
first LGBT
Pride
March.- The
Hindu.
Scholars’s
Sensitizati
on
Seminar
for the
media on
LGBT
issues.

14. How can YOU support & Why YOUR
support is vital ?
 To empower and access the strength &
confidence,
 Get involved- Donation,
 Sponsorships,
 Volunteer opportunities,
* Students,
* Writers,
* Designers/ Artists,
* Photographs.

15. Ajay Singh
Rathore