HealBridge works with women and children leaving domestic abuse in Nigeria. Safe shelter, counselling, legal help, and a route back to work.
Ask a woman why she has not left and money is the answer more often than fear. Not because fear is absent, but because fear has an answer and rent does not. Financial abuse is deliberate and it is recognised
Read MoreEconomic abuse is one of the most common forms of domestic abuse and one of the least recognised. It runs almost entirely through financial institutions, which means bank staff observe it regularly without having a name for what they are
Read MoreTwo 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
Read MoreA very large number of the women we work with stopped studying because of a marriage. Some were withdrawn from school for it. Some passed examinations they were never allowed to use. Some were part way through a course when
Read MoreA 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
Read MoreWomen 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
Read MoreOrganisations describe what they do. Almost none describe what they do not, which means people find out at the point of asking, usually at the worst moment. This is the list. It is here so that you can decide whether
Read MoreSchools see this earlier than anybody. Before a police station, before a clinic, usually before any relative outside the house. The child is in front of you five days a week and something changes. Most teachers notice and do not
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 MoreMany women first experience violence while pregnant. For many others, pregnancy is when existing violence becomes more severe or changes character. Midwives and obstetricians know this pattern well. Most women do not, and discover it alone at a point when
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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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