The federal government has used taxpayer dollars to fund services for LGBTQ refugees in Latin America over the past couple of years, federal grants show.
The State Department and the Inter-American Foundation, an independent federal agency, funded a trio of grants between August 2021 and October 2023 aimed at bolstering Costa Rica’s status as a haven for LGBTQ asylum-seekers, funding a project to help LGBTQ refugee entrepreneurs as well as teaching gay and transgender refugees how to use computers. The three programs collectively received almost $300,000 in federal funds.
The Instituto Sobre Migracion y Refugio LGBTIQ Para Centroamerica, a Costa Rican refugee nongovernmental organization serving LGBTQ migrants, received the bulk of the federal government’s financial support. The organization has served 950 people total, according to its website, and has received over $200,000 in federal funds.
Instituto Sobre Migracion y Refugio LGBTIQ Para Centroamerica “provides training, certification and psychosocial and legal assistance to LGBTIQ migrants in Costa Rica,” according to a federal grant description.
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