Volunteers and members of Rainbow Women of Kenya (RWoK) and Artists For Recognition and Acceptance (AFRA-Kenya) have together with close friends and family taken up an initiative to support our own, Ms Anne and Irene Oloo and their family.
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT – LEGAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS AFFAIRS OFFICER
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The Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya – GALCK is the umbrella body of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) organizations in Kenya. GALCK offers a safe and enabling environment for LGBTI organizations and individuals in Kenya and promotes recognition, acceptance and defends the interests and rights of LGBTI organizations and their members.
We are looking to fill the position of Legal and Human Rights Affairs Officer. Reporting directly to the Executive Coordinator, this position will be offered on an initial one year period after successful completion of a three month-probation period. The incumbent must be ready to assume office latest by November 1st 2012.
GALCK AGM 2012 – 31st August and 1st September, Nairobi.
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Hello Kenyas LGBTI community,
It is a great week, a marvelous week actually. It is the first week at the community centre since the 2012 Annual General Meeting. Walking into the GALCK centre one can sense an aura of newness, anticipation and excitement. It would be a lie if we did not mention the anxiety that always comes with change and a new beginning. The LGBTI and queer community in Kenya has embarked on a journey of transformation and transition that started when the first voice was raised by a community member, on their dissatisfaction with GALCK and its reach. It is impossible to tell where that voice was located but after it, many more voices followed from everywhere, loud enough to hear and act upon in unity.
The AGM was the first to be held in the past two years; this lead to the assumption that GALCK holds Biennial General Meetings and not Annual General Meetings. It was only during the drafting of community proposed constitutional amendments that it became clear that this was indeed an AGM, a fact made clear at the opening of the meeting on Friday the 31st of August.
The much communicated consultative process running to the AGM ensured that the General Meeting was a community driven meeting. This process will continue beyond last weekend. There will be a series of events including a community feedback meeting, similar to the August 4th Community Forum. Communication shall be forthcoming on this. This last quarter of 2012 shall continue to shape the future of GALCK as the face of the LGBTI movement in the country.
As we await the completion of the full AGM report, here are the highlights of the AGM: