Provides safety and stability for the most vulnerable LGBTQI+ individuals. Wellness programmes led by trauma-informed professionals and creates a resource hub for livelihood opportunities, including skill-sharing workshops.
ZONE 3: HEALING JUSTICE SUPPORT SYSTEMS
Focuses on holistic healing and the connection between social and ecological justice. Develops and facilitates creative workshops and nature-based activities that explore the links between gender, climate, and healing. The goal is to nurture a community of gender and climate justice activists who understand the intersections of sexuality, gender, race, and class, fostering long-term resilience and advocacy.
Building upon CAISO’s Wholeness & Justice Programme, the Growing Spaces project expands access to economic, social, and cultural rights. Growing Spaces is a response to the needs of LGBTQI+ people in Trinidad and Tobago that emerge from the inequality, marginalisation, and lack of legal and social protections the community faces. Growing Spaces seeks to empower LGBTQI+ community members through holistic, supportive, and sustainable resources that address immediate needs and foster long-term resilience, wellbeing, and self-advocacy. The project focuses on sustainable development and change for justice through interconnected zones of influence including wellness, food and nutrition security, healing justice support systems, and more.
ZONE 2: FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY
Addresses economic and food insecurity through community-led initiatives. Provides training and starter kits for growing healthy food, and establish a community garden as a space for sharing and trading produce. The goal is to support the development of a multi-purpose co-operative to create sustainable work opportunities and products for the community, integrating lessons on climate adaptation.
