[OC] Support us supporting Singapore's LGBTQ community

[Oogachagacare]

Dear BW followers & members,

 

Thank you for your support of  Oogachaga services & programmes over the years. Some of you may also have personally benefitted from our counselling services, or taken part in our talks & workshops.

 

Recently, we had news from our main funders (who had been supporting us for many years) that they have decided not to fund us any more.  Hence, we have launched our current fundraising campaign to help us raise funds so that we can continue our activities next year & hopefully beyond.

 

Oogachaga exists to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer and gender diverse (LGBTQ+) individuals, couples and families in Singapore, and to help Singapore society better understand the LGBTQ+ community.

 

We are the only one of its kind in Singapore

We’ve been running continuously for 17 years, and since our very first support group in 1999, we have expanded to include counselling services, community and corporate outreach programmes, and professional training workshops. 

Being different in Singapore can be difficult

When supporting clients through our counselling services and outreach programmes, many share with us their difficulties of being LGBTQ+, or just different, and having to deal with issues such as coming out, identity, relationships, mental health, family, loneliness, discrimination, sexual health, suicide, and violence.

 

 

We learn so much from our community

Our clients teach us so much about what it means to be sexual and gender minorities in Singapore. About being resilient, about what it takes to seek appropriate help and support for themselves, and about not giving up despite the various challenges they may face in their lives.

 

Our team of trained volunteers, professional counsellors and full-time staff are deeply honoured to be working with and supporting the many people who trust Oogachaga and use our services on a daily basis.

 

Every day we give back to our community

We don’t want to stop working for the community

In the past few years, we have benefited from the generous donations of many individuals, community and corporate funders that enabled us to continue doing what we do.

 

But things are getting harder in this current economic and social climate. Some donors and funders have cut back, citing various reasons.

 

 

We want to keep doing what we’re doing for our community. Because we know it works.

To do that, we need your support, so that we can continue supporting the LGBTQ+ community in Singapore.

 

Make a donation to Oogachaga now!

 

Oogachaga is a legal entity (registration no: 53035413J) under SPACES Counseling and Community Limited, a registered charity (charity no: 1812) and company limited by guarantee (registration no: 200402955N) in Singapore. Our finances are independently audited and submitted annually to Charity Council of Singapore and Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA).

 

For one-off donations:

• Make an online donation here on our Generosity crowdfunding page
• Write a cheque payable to “Oogachaga”, and send it to: 57B Pagoda Street, S 059216
• Make a bank transfer to our DBS current account 011-901459-8

 

For recurring monthly donations:

• By CREDIT CARD: visit our GiveAsia portal bit.ly/supportoogachaga
  • Click on "Donate Now" & provide your contact details
  • Insert the amount to donate, & select "Make this a monthly recurring donation"
  • Provide your payment details
• By GIRO: download & print application form bit.ly/OC_giro

 

Please contact us to discuss other arrangements too:

Email: contact@oogachaga.com  

Tel: 6224 9373 (call Mon-Fri, 11am - 6pm)

Address: 57B Pagoda Street, S 059216

 

Thank you for your support!

Edited October 26, 2016 by Oogachagacare
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Fund-raising PARTY.  19th, hopefully. 

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Out Of The Closet: Faliqh Shares His Story

 

Dear People,

 

Meet 28-year old Singaporean Faliqh, an openly gay Malay who used to struggle a lot with reconciling his Islamic faith with his sexuality.

 

Born into a highly religious family, Faliqh was so ridden with guilt over his same-sex attraction that he would often pray to God in a bid to become more ‘normal’.

For one year, I would try to pray the gay away and hope to become more straight but it never worked.

I felt bitter. I felt I had disappointed my family and let them down

His efforts proved futile and only served to send him deeper into an abyss of misery and helplessness. But with the help of Oogachaga – Singapore’s only LGBTQ+ counselling centre, Faliq was able to turn his life around.

 

But Faliqh’s journey to self-acceptance wasn’t easy. And he had to overcome many challenges first before he was able to become the confident young man that he is today.

 

>>>READ THE REST OF FALIQH'S STORY HERE<<<