Join Laxmi Narayan Tripathi On Her Mission To Give Free Vaccines To The Trans Community

For the longest time, Laxmi Narayan Tripathi has been working towards making lives better for the transgender community.  This community is not only marginalized and vulnerable but they’re also stigmatized. The only support and shelter they have are one another. They’re shunned and humiliated on various occasions. India’s transgender community suffers amid the crisis more than anyone else because of lack of social acceptance. 

However, Laxmi Narayan Tripathi is determined to help the community during these difficult times. She was the first transgender person to represent Asia Pacific in the UN in 2008.  Laxmi has done some tremendous work for the LGBTQ community. Born into an orthodox Brahmin family, she has faced a lot of stigma along the way. But, she didn’t let that stop her. She has supported the transgender community through various social campaigns and has become the most influential transgender activist in the country. Through her initiative, Kineer Services, she aims to provide employment opportunities, education, consultation and help to this vulnerable community.

The organization now wants to provide free vaccinations for the transgenders Vaccinations have been a major concern for the community and access to registrations became difficult, Kineer, in association with Apollo Hospitals and Villoo Poonawalla Foundation, has come up with a solution. NGOs working with transgender communities or transgender individuals can now list themselves with Kineer, and the latter will organise camps, either at a hospital premises or offsite, and provide free Covishield vaccinations to community members.This campaign will be organised across the country for six months so that both doses are administered.  

“There is an urgent need for this kind of an initiative. The cases are rising and it is important that we do everything in our power to help the ones in need,” - Dr. Manish Jain, Executive Director, Kineer Services. With over 400 transgenders already being administered the vaccine dose in Pune, they want to make this service available to all those who haven’t been vaccinated. You can support this endeavour “The transgender community does not have the social honor of operating within a distant ‘online’ world when their lives are precariously balanced on the thread of social interaction and functions,” says Laxmi Narayan Tripathi. 

he transgender community has been at the receiving end of the discrimination. For years, Kineer has been working to make lives a little better. They have helped them during the pandemic with groceries and sanitation kits to help them fight this crisis.This time they need our help to provide Covishield vaccines for transgenders across the country. We can join hands with Kineer to help in this cause. About the NGO: Kineer Services was started by Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, the first transgender person to represent Asia Pacific in the UN in 2008, Kineer believes that our community has gaps where the Hijras can fit perfectly. Their aim is to provide employment opportunities, education, consultation and help to the vulnerable transgender community and give them a dignified life. The following initiatives are run by Kineer -