HealBridge works with women and children leaving domestic abuse in Nigeria. Safe shelter, counselling, legal help, and a route back to work.
Most advice about rebuilding assumes a job. For a great many Nigerian women a trade is the more realistic route, and sometimes the better one: it starts sooner, it fits around children, it does not require a reference for a
Read MoreA great many women describe the same surprise. They coped for years, left, reached somewhere safe, and then fell apart. That is not a relapse and it is not weakness. While you are in danger the body holds itself together
Read MoreLeaving frequently does not end the contact. It changes its form. A great many women describe more contact after separation than before, because the person who has lost control is trying to get it back, and because he now has
Read MoreMost organisations do not write this page, because it is not a good look. We think the absence of it is worse. People arrive at a service at the worst point of their lives, and the least useful thing that
Read MorePeople who suspect something usually do one of two things. They say nothing for years, or they say leave him and are never told anything again. There is a middle path, and it works considerably better than both. Ask once,
Read MorePeople assume the risk here is him messaging them. That is the least of it, and it is the part that is easiest to stop. The real problem is that an ordinary social media presence broadcasts a surprising amount about
Read MoreReporting is a decision, not an obligation, and it is yours to make. This article describes what tends to happen so that you can decide with your eyes open rather than discovering it at the counter. Before you go Take
Read MoreMost organisations write a privacy policy because they have to. This is the same information written as an article, because a policy is not much use to somebody deciding, right now, whether it is safe to send a message. The
Read MoreThis is where leaving most often fails. Not at the door of the house, and not at the shelter. Six weeks later, at the point where somewhere temporary has to become somewhere permanent. The obstacles are specific and they are
Read MoreIf somebody checks the device you are reading this on, the fact that you visited a domestic abuse website is itself information you may not want them to have. This article explains what you can do about that, and what
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HealBridge works with women and children leaving domestic abuse in Nigeria. Safe shelter, counselling, legal help, and a route back to work.
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