HealBridge works with women and children leaving domestic abuse in Nigeria. Safe shelter, counselling, legal help, and a route back to work.

Contact info

Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria +234 802 517 0267 hello@healbridge.org Support line hours: Mon to Fri, 8am to 6pm WAT Emergency: call 112 any time
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Managing money when you have never been allowed to

A woman who has had every naira accounted for by somebody else for eleven years is suddenly responsible for all of it. Nobody teaches this, and the assumption that it is obvious is one of the reasons the first year

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Loneliness after you leave

Women are warned about danger, about money, about the courts and about the children. Almost nobody warns them about this one, and it is the reason a significant number go back. You leave, and within a few months you have

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When your children are angry with you

You did the frightening thing. You got them out. And within a few weeks one of them is telling you it is your fault, that they want to go home, that their father never did anything, and that you have

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