Moud Goba currently works as a National Manager for Micro Rainbow, the leading organisations in the UK supporting LGBTQI migrants. She leads the organisation programmes at national level: their safe housing work which provides 30,000 bed-nights a year to homeless LGBTQI asylum seekers and their social inclusion and employability schemes. More recently Moud has managed the integration process of LGBTQI people who arrived in the UK from Afghanistan. Moud is one of the founding members of UK Black Pride and she is the current Chair of their Board of Trustees. Moud was recently named as one of the BBC 100 women for 2022 and was the recipient of an Attitude Pride Award, Kaleidoscope lifetime achievement award and most recently a Diva Magazine inspirational role model award. Her pronouns are she/her.

Moud’s word of the day is REFUGEE.

TW: This episode contains themes that some listeners might find upsetting

CONNECT WITH MICRO RAINBOW

T: @MicroRainbow

I: @microrainbow

CONNECT WITH MOUD:

T: @MsMGoba

#AnthemsPride 2023 is a collection of 7 original manifestos, speeches, stories, poems and rallying cries written and voiced by exceptional LGBTQIA+ contributors and allies. It was Executive Produced and sound designed by Bea Duncan, with producer Talia Augustidis. The production assistants were Lucy Carr and Cassandre Greenberg. The artwork is by Mars West and Eleanore Bamber.

RESOURCES:

Samaritans

Confidential support for people experiencing feelings of distress or despair.

Phone: 116 123 (free 24-hour helpline)

Website: www.samaritans.org.uk

Galop

Hate crime, domestic abuse and sexual violence support service for LGBT+ people

Helpline: 0800 999 5428 (Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm / Wednesday & Thursday, 10am-8pm)

Website: http://www.galop.org.uk

Micro Rainbow

Safe and temporary housing for LGBTQI asylum seekers and refugees in the UK

General helpline: 0800 3585851 (Monday-Friday, 2-5pm for first time callers, for others 10am-4pm)

Website: https://microrainbow.org/contact-us/

Refugee Council

Refugee advice and support

Infoline: 08081967272 (Monday-Thursday, 9:30-12:30)

Website: https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/

List of support services that can be filtered by region and type of service: https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/get-support/services/

Refugee Action

Support service

Website: https://www.refugee-action.org.uk/

List of other refugee help, support and advice services: https://www.refugee-action.org.uk/help-support-advice-services/

Migrant Help

Advice and guidance for asylum claims

Free asylum helpline: 0808 8010503 (24/7)

Website: https://www.migranthelpuk.org/Pages/Category/asylum

Red Cross

List of local refugee support services across the UK: https://www.redcross.org.uk/get-help/get-help-as-a-refugee/contact-your-local-refugee-service

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