Empowering Women and Girls

“Caring For Children Affected By Ebola”

The THINK Safe Home and Juvenile Homes strive to:

1. Assist victims /survivors of sexual and gender-based violence including human trafficking and children that come in contact or conflict with the law to become independent and responsible citizens, by providing confidential shelter, protection, psychosocial, counseling, medical care, and rehabilitation.
2. Provide confidential shelter, protection, security, psychosocial, support, medical care, and follow up, medical appointments, access to legal aid,  creative arts, and recreational, classroom time, family tracing,  preparation follow up visitation for women and children.

Cases received at the THINK Safe Home during this quarter were survivors of SGBV, human trafficking, and domestic violence. Cases received at the Juvenile Transit Center are children who come in contact or conflict with the law (minor offenses) with the law such as juvenile delinquency and petty theft. For children that come in contact with the law, cases are; child abuse, neglect, abandoned children, runaway girls, lost or missing girls and children in need of protection including parenting (when the primary caregiver is incarcerated). In the case where the child is a boy THINK Liberia take under five boys up to 8years old. THINK will accept a boy and provide protection and shelter for a very short time because the home is for girls and women.

• THINK Safe Home and Juvenile Transit Center presently have 17 residents (4 boys under-five and13 girls) for this quarter
• THINK Safe Home and Juvenile Transit Center received 12 new admissions: 6 alleged Rape, I human trafficking case, referral by World Hope International, 2 protection, 3 Runaway cases and I missing child case.  
• AGE DISAGGREGATION: (0-5) = 0, (6-12) = 6, (13-17) = 5,(>18) = 1 Survivors. Reunification: 5,  Residents that went for follow up hospital visits 6, Residents that received individual counseling 10, and Residents that received group counseling 15, while there is 1 survivor that is three months pregnant and attending prenatal clinic follow up visits. 

There has been a wakeup call in Liberia concerning Child Protection, and THINK is carefully observing the ongoing investigation and reviewing her own protection policies to ensure that we provide a safe environment for the children and beneficiaries we work with.

The observance4 of the International Day of the Girl Child was held in Liberia and the national theme was for professional women to mentor girls in their workplaces.