FWA SEPTEMBER 2022 NARRATIVE REPORT

In the month of November 2023 , in the context of the project “Connecting the Global to the Local: Strengthening Women’s Leadership for the Localization of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on “Women, Peace and Security”, seven psychologists and 132 psychologists’ assistants have been receiving gender-based violence survivors for both listening and…

My name is Therese. I helped a married couple who was always fighting. The wife was beaten by her husband five times. She was every time wounded. The case became beyond my capacities that I referred them to the local administration for counselling. Now the husband no longer beats his wife. They are living peacefully.

My name is Nadine. I am from the indigenous people, I was told that in our ethnic group we do not study and I was discouraged when I attended school. When I was 10th grade, I was really discouraged until I gave up. During their home visits, FWA GBV accompanists found me and advised me…

“My name is Leilla. I grew up in a family where my parents were always quarrelling. I was born in Sororezo, Bujumbura province. When I was 15 years old, my mother left my father because she was beaten almost every day. It was since that time that I started to do the work my mother…

Normally my husband lives in Bujumbura, He comes in village to impregnate me only because he knows that I am a woman who knows how to search for money. I did family planning to avoid birth because I have 2 children who are on special medical assistance because of their malformation. When he saw that…

I married an orphan husband. He promised me to live happily and He used to say that I am all He has. After 4 year, he started dating other women. I lived in the village and He was in Bujumbura.One day……………………….