HealBridge works with women and children leaving domestic abuse in Nigeria. Safe shelter, counselling, legal help, and a route back to work.
Faith is a genuine source of strength for a great many of the women we work with, and nothing here is an argument against anybody's religion. A household organised around worship, with a husband who takes headship seriously, is an
Read MoreA woman is widowed and within days it becomes clear that a set of arrangements has been made about her. She is to marry his brother. Or she is to leave the house, which belongs to the family. Or she
Read MoreThis is written for two people. A woman who was married before she was grown, and is now perhaps nineteen, perhaps forty-five, and has never had a place to ask about it. And somebody who knows a girl this is
Read MoreIf I go, he will kill himself. And then it will be my fault, and his mother will say so, and the children will know. This stops more women than the threat of violence does, because violence is something done
Read MoreMost descriptions of abuse assume it was there from early on, hidden at first and then revealed. That is the usual pattern and it is not the only one. A significant number of women describe something different: fifteen or twenty-five
Read MoreMost of this site describes one person harming another inside a marriage. This is about something with a different shape: harm carried out, or approved of, by several members of a family, because of what a woman is believed to
Read MoreThis site is written for women, because that is who our programmes are built for and because the overwhelming majority of people we work with are women. Men are also abused, the ones who are get very little, and writing
Read MoreOf everything said to keep a woman in a marriage, this is the one that works. Money can be earned and injuries heal. The prospect of walking out of your own house and never seeing your children again stops almost
Read MoreAlmost every domestic abuse service is designed around a woman in her thirties with young children. Women in their sixties and seventies experience abuse too, and they are among the least likely people in Nigeria to tell anybody about it.
Read MoreMost people, including many health workers, treat hands on the throat as one violent act among others. It is not. Of everything that happens in an abusive marriage, this is the one that changes what we say to a woman
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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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