HealBridge works with women and children leaving domestic abuse in Nigeria. Safe shelter, counselling, legal help, and a route back to work.
Clinicians see women experiencing abuse years before a lawyer or a charity does. Very often the presentation is not an injury at all, which is why it is missed. What to look for Injuries that do not match the explanation,
Read MoreHousing is where leaving most often fails. A woman can have a job, a lawyer and a protection order, and still return to a violent home because no landlord will take her. Why she gets refused No guarantor, because the
Read MoreAsk why a woman went back and the answer is usually money. A shelter bed solves one night. A job with a contract solves the year after it, and it is the one thing an employer can provide that no
Read MoreReporting on this subject does real good. It is how the law gets scrutinised, how services get held to account, and how a woman reading a newspaper works out that what is happening in her house has a name. It
Read MoreEconomic abuse is one of the most common forms of domestic abuse and one of the least recognised. It runs almost entirely through financial institutions, which means bank staff observe it regularly without having a name for what they are
Read MoreSchools see this earlier than anybody. Before a police station, before a clinic, usually before any relative outside the house. The child is in front of you five days a week and something changes. Most teachers notice and do not
Read MoreA hospital sees somebody once it is serious. You see them the same week, repeatedly, and for things nobody would go to a hospital for. For a very large number of Nigerians the pharmacy or the patent medicine shop is
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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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