HealBridge works with women and children leaving domestic abuse in Nigeria. Safe shelter, counselling, legal help, and a route back to work.
Women arrive at shelters with an idea formed from films and leave within days because it was nothing like it. Others avoid them entirely because they imagine something much worse than the reality. This is a plain description of what
Read MoreWhere you sleep tonight is a different problem from where you live next year. Confusing the two is why some women refuse a perfectly good short term option, and why others accept a bad long term one because it was
Read MoreMost Nigerian websites on this subject carry a long list of hotlines. A large proportion of those numbers do not answer, and some have not answered for years. A dead number is worse than no number, because it is dialled
Read MoreTwo things drive this article. Some treatment only works if you get it quickly, and a medical record made at the time is the strongest evidence that exists in this whole subject. You can act on the first without ever
Read MoreEvery piece of advice about getting help assumes a private moment. Call this number. Send a message. Have a look at this website. A great many women have none of that. The phone is his, or is checked. There is
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 MoreHealBridge 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 MoreFear of what happens next stops more women from contacting a service than the abuse itself. Not knowing whether you will be reported, lectured, put on a list or told to leave your husband is enough to make most people
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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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