How we decide who gets help first
Every organisation in this field rations, and almost none of them publish how. That silence is not neutral: it means the reasoning is never examined, and a woman who is turned down is left to conclude she was not…
Every organisation in this field rations, and almost none of them publish how. That silence is not neutral: it means the reasoning is never examined, and a woman who is turned down is left to conclude she was not…
A woman moves into a compound to get away from somebody. Everything has been arranged — the lawyer, the school, the order from the court. Then a man arrives at the gate, says he is her husband and that…
Formal services reach a fraction of the women who need them. Markets reach almost everybody. A market association knows who has stopped coming, whose husband collects her takings, who arrived with a swollen face and said she fell. It…
You have known him since university. He was at your wedding. He lent you money once without being asked. And now his wife has told you something, or you have seen something, and you cannot make the two versions…
She tells you he threw her phone at the wall, that he does not let her see her sister, that she has to account for every naira. And then she tells you every marriage has its problems, that he…
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