HealBridge works with women and children leaving domestic abuse in Nigeria. Safe shelter, counselling, legal help, and a route back to work.
A court date is one of the few occasions when somebody who has lost track of you knows exactly where you will be, on which day, at roughly what time, and that you will be there for hours. It is
Read MoreTaking the phone is one of the commonest things that happens, and it is usually treated as an argument about a phone. It is not. It is the removal of your only private line to everybody outside the house, and
Read MoreMost safety advice quietly assumes you leave the house. Work is described as the one place a woman goes alone, the place a colleague might notice, the place a private call can be made. For a woman who sews at
Read MorePhones leak more than most people realise, and the leaks are usually things switched on for convenience years ago and forgotten about. One warning before anything else, and it is the most important paragraph on this page. If he checks
Read MoreChildren in a violent home already know. Parents almost always underestimate this, and the underestimate is understandable, because the alternative is unbearable to think about. Children who were supposedly asleep describe arguments in detail years later. Children who were in
Read MoreThis is the hardest article on this site to write honestly, because the truthful version contains a sentence nobody wants to read. The period around leaving is when women are most often seriously hurt or killed. That is not an
Read MoreNothing in this article makes anybody safe, and none of it is your responsibility. What happens is done by the person doing it, and there is no correct behaviour that prevents it. What is true is that some decisions made
Read MoreAn emergency bag is the difference between leaving with your life and leaving with your life plus the ability to prove who you are. Women who leave without documents spend months rebuilding an identity while also trying to stay safe,
Read MoreThe problem this solves is narrow and very common. Something is happening, or about to happen, and you can make a call — but you cannot say anything that sounds like asking for help, because he is in the room,
Read MoreLeaving frequently does not end the contact. It changes its form. A great many women describe more contact after separation than before, because the person who has lost control is trying to get it back, and because he now has
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