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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Social media after you leave

People assume the risk here is him messaging them. That is the least of it, and it is the part that is easiest to stop. The real problem is that an ordinary social media presence broadcasts a surprising amount about

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Covering your tracks online

If somebody checks the device you are reading this on, the fact that you visited a domestic abuse website is itself information you may not want them to have. This article explains what you can do about that, and what

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Trackers, cars and smart devices

Most advice about surveillance stops at the phone. That was reasonable ten years ago. Now a woman can leave the phone at home, take a car, and still be watched, and the devices doing it are cheap, small, and sold

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Being followed, and travelling more safely

Home has doors and a workplace has other people. The journey between them has neither, and it is also the most predictable thing most of us do — the same route, the same hour, the same bus stop, five days

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Keeping a record of what happens

Two reasons to keep a record, and the second one is the one people expect. The first is that it is for you. Living inside this pattern does something to memory: the calm weeks erase the bad night so thoroughly

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Staying safer without leaving

Almost everything written about domestic abuse is written for the day somebody leaves. That is a small fraction of the actual problem. Most women in an abusive marriage are still in it, many will be in it next year, and

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Keeping copies of your documents

Ask people what stops a woman leaving and they say fear, or money, or the children. Those are all real. But the thing that most often stops the practical machinery from working, weeks later, is paper. You cannot enrol a

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