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Borneo Indigenous Leader Boosts Security for Orangutans and Neighbors

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Borneo Indigenous Leader Boosts Security for Orangutans and Neighbors

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How do you measure impact? By its reach. By the lives it affects. By the allies brought into the movement.

Stories of impact aim to show the transformative effects of Arcus grantee partners on the individuals, organizations, and communities that they serve or support in strategic areas of focus around the world. Those featured in these stories do not necessarily receive support directly from Arcus.

Supporting Cape Town’s Homeless Transgender Women During COVID-19

SistaazHood membership provided Abby Hanns with a support network amid strict curbs imposed across the country in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including a ban on the movement of all but essential workers starting in March 2020. “I was in deep, deep need," she says, "and they blessed me.”

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South Africa Rights Groups Step Up Watch On Transgender Prisoners After COVID-19 Lockdown 

Transgender prisoners in South Africa won an unprecedented 2019 court victory for the right to express their gender identity. But they are likely to see higher barriers to the realization of this right because of the country's COVID-19 state of disaster.

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LGBTQ Migrants to the U.S. Fight to Stay Safe

“We are not criminals. We are human beings who have rights like any person.” This is the postscript of a three-page letter written by 29 trans and gender nonconforming migrants being held at the Cibola County Correctional Center in Milan, New Mexico, about 80 miles west of Albuquerque.

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U.S. Transgender Advocates Stand Their Ground Amid Rights Rollbacks

Arianna Lint, whose nonprofit supports transgender people in South Florida, saw two of her clients graduate from beauty school early this year, with their gender identities formally recognized on their certificates—a feat only possible after legally changing their names. Arianna’s Center helped the women achieve this milestone.

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As Chimpanzee Habitat in Guinea Is Threatened, Environmentalists Join Forces to Save Lives

Little was known about Simon, an emaciated and malnourished baby chimpanzee, when he was confiscated from an unknown man by police last June in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, West Africa. Ragged and with a dull tone to his fur, the 10-month-old was handed over to a local wildlife protection agency, which took him to the Chimpanzee Conservation Center, a sanctuary inside one of the region’s most important protected areas, the 1,200-square-kilometer Haut Niger National Park.

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LGBTQ Activists Build Bridges with Faith Leaders in Kenya, South Africa

Long-standing anti-LGBTQ violence and harassment along the coast of Kenya, East Africa—spurred in part by pejorative messages conveyed in some places of worship—have motivated grassroots groups to build bridges between faith leaders and local LGBTQ communities. Groups of varying sizes carried out or threatened to carry out at least six such attacks in the three coastal counties of Kilifi, Kwale, and Mombasa since 2008, according to a 2015 report by Human Rights Watch and PEMA Kenya (Pema in Kenya's majority language, Swahili, means 'place of solace').

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