HealBridge works with women and children leaving domestic abuse in Nigeria. Safe shelter, counselling, legal help, and a route back to work.
HealBridge runs six programmes. They exist because these are the six things that decide whether leaving lasts, and because a woman who receives only one of them very often goes back. That is the whole design principle. A shelter bed
Read MoreThere is a widespread belief that on divorce everything is divided equally. That is the position in some countries. It is not the general position in Nigeria, and women who assume it are frequently shocked. The realistic picture is that
Read MoreMany women coming out of an abusive marriage have not worked for years. Not by choice, but because working was not permitted, or because it was made impossible by refusing childcare, refusing transport, or arriving at the workplace often enough
Read MoreMost advice about surveillance stops at the phone. That was reasonable ten years ago. Now a woman can leave the phone at home, take a car, and still be watched, and the devices doing it are cheap, small, and sold
Read MoreThe belief that a lawyer is unaffordable stops more women than the actual cost does. Some of the best routes are free, several are cheap, and knowing which is which is most of the problem. A second point worth making
Read MoreA protection order is a court order telling somebody to stop. It is one of the very few tools that changes a man's behaviour by changing his risk, rather than by asking him to be different. It can require a
Read MoreYou hear it. Most weeks, or some weeks, through a wall or across a compound. Shouting, then something else, then a child crying, then quiet. And then the ordinary paralysis: it is not your business, you might be wrong, you
Read MoreThe conversation with a new employer usually starts with them bracing for a request they will have to refuse. Lower the bar, take somebody who cannot really do the work, absorb a level of disruption, treat it as charity and
Read MoreHome has doors and a workplace has other people. The journey between them has neither, and it is also the most predictable thing most of us do — the same route, the same hour, the same bus stop, five days
Read MorePolygamous marriage is lawful in Nigeria under customary and Islamic law, and a very large number of women live in one. This article is not an argument about the institution. It is about a set of mechanisms that appear in
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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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