HealBridge works with women and children leaving domestic abuse in Nigeria. Safe shelter, counselling, legal help, and a route back to work.
The 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 MoreAbuse abroad carries an extra layer that is hard to explain to anyone who has not lived it. You may be thousands of miles from family, unsure of your rights, dependent on his immigration status, and genuinely afraid that reporting
Read MoreFear of losing the children keeps more women in violent marriages than almost anything else. In most cases that fear is based on something a husband has said rather than on anything a court would decide. He is not usually
Read MoreWomen arrive at lawyers and police stations with a great deal that happened and very little that can be shown. That is not a failure on their part — nobody documents a marriage while living in it — but it
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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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