"Parivar, which means "family" in Hindi, has been serving the city's South Asian queer immigrant community for six years. Founded by Anjali Rimi, a transwoman from Hyderabad in South India, Parivar raised over $200,000 to provide groceries and rent relief to LGBTQ+ people across the Bay Area, hosted public health initiatives like vaccination drives and trans support groups, and provided translators in Spanish, Hindi and other languages for trans asylum seekers."
"Parivar's announcement coincided with the opening of the nonprofit's first brick-and-mortar space at 837 Turk Street. Honey Mahogany - who directs San Francisco's Office of Transgender Initiatives, was there. So was D8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, as well as representatives from Mayor Lurie, Assemblyman Matt Haney and D5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood's offices. A week later, the program had already received 17 inquiries and taken on two new asylum cases."
Parivar launched a legal aid program providing discounted asylum-focused immigration representation and stipends for transgender immigrants. Parivar, which means "family" in Hindi, has served the South Asian queer immigrant community for six years. Founder Anjali Rimi, a transwoman from Hyderabad, led fundraising that raised over $200,000 for groceries, rent relief, vaccination drives, trans support groups, and multilingual translation for trans asylum seekers. The organization partnered with Okan Law to offer a 30 percent discount from five attorneys and on-site meetings at the new 837 Turk Street location. The program received 17 inquiries and accepted two asylum cases within a week. Legal fees can exceed $10,000; transgender applicants may receive up to $1,500 in stipends to offset costs.
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