I’ve worked for more than a decade helping businesses harness minority talent and foster inclusive workplaces. I’m asking business leaders to join me in looking beyond the workplace to support the global struggle for LGBTQI rights, including by making donations to this Fund.
The Suki Sandhu LGBTQI Asia Fund has been established to support LGBTQI human rights activism in Asia.
Managed by the award-winning charity GiveOut, the Fund is generously sponsored by Suki Sandhu, a globally recognised expert in talent, diversity and inclusion. Suki is the CEO and founder of both Involve and Audeliss, two firms working to champion diversity and inclusion in business. He is a Stonewall Ambassador, a Patron for The Albert Kennedy Trust and a member of the Board of Directors of Outright International. In 2019, Suki was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours for Services to Diversity in Business.
Across Asia, LGBTQI people face human rights abuses based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, from discrimination to violence. In several countries, including Myanmar, Malaysia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, same sex relations are criminalised. And in other countries, being LGBTQI is punishable by death.
But LGBTQI activists are campaigning for change and having impact, with recent, uneven victories in the region for the rights of trans people, marriage equality and same-sex partnership rights.
Individuals and businesses can donate to the Fund with GiveOut, which pools the donations to make grants to LGBTQI organisations working across Asia. Through a rigorous process of consultation, due diligence and vetting, GiveOut identifies grant partners under the Fund, which form part of GiveOut’s overall portfolio of grants to support LGBTQI human rights activism worldwide.
To make a donation to the Fund, please click the button below. Suki warmly invites you to join him in supporting LGBTQI human rights activism across Asia.
For any questions, to discuss how you or your business can get involved, or to donate via bank transfer, please contact GiveOut’s philanthropy team at give@giveout.org.
GiveOut is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (Registered Charity Number 1176434).
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