The Modern Underground Railroad

In this case helping lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and trans-people flee Uganda and is run by the same people who helped slaves to freedom in the north. In Uganda like many other countries it is a crime being LGBT and carries stiff penalties if you are caught so the Quakers are helping LGBT people flee Uganda.

American Quakers Have Created An "Underground Railroad" In Uganda
But human rights activists in the region aren’t cheering.
Buzzfeed
Posted on July 10, 2014
By J. Lester Feder

A group of American Quakers say they are offering a way out for some desperate Ugandans fleeing the country’s new Anti-Homosexuality Act.

This group, based in Olympia, Wash., calls its project the Friends New Underground Railroad (FNUR) because it sees itself as following in the footsteps of the Quakers who helped bring slaves out of the American South before the Civil War. Working with fewer than 10 Ugandan “conductors,” they report having funded passage out of the country for 107 people with grants ranging from $52-$185. The refugees mostly travel in small groups on back roads and make their way to safe houses in neighboring countries. FNUR says they know of at least 12 people who have gone on to third countries like South Africa and Sweden, and they have received unconfirmed reports that around 30 have reached Europe.

The pushback comes from organized human rights groups,

“This is not the kind of stuff that well-meaning amateurs can do, and the money’s basically going to be wasted,” said Scott Long, the former director of Human Rights Watch’s LGBT program. “I fully appreciate the good intentions here, but … the organizers [should] be persuaded to subordinate their efforts to a recognized refugee NGO [Non-Government Organizations] or to the security committee” of the coalition of Ugandan organizations opposing the anti-LGBT law.
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Independent actors make the alliance of Ugandan organizations leading the charge against the anti-LGBT law very nervous. The group, known as the Civil Society Coalition On Human Rights And Constitutional Law, has established a formal security committee tasked with helping people in crisis situations and would like outsiders to channel their efforts through them. Pop-up groups can make mistakes that put already vulnerable people in even worse danger, they worry, or if they get defrauded it could discourage donors from contributing to responsible groups. Even if they’re well run, they may be diverting resources from the people and organizations that actually need it most.

There is always a danger of people who are more interested in taking your money than getting you safely out of the country but the Quakers are not a fly-by-night organization, they have a long history of humanitarian work.