Gender Equality Liberia Project #19501

Empowering Women and Girls

by Touching Humanity in Need of Kindness (THINK)

Project Report | Jul 25, 2016
Continuing after Ebola

By Rosana Schaack | Director

Sewing room for 12

The THINK Home Cycle 12 will be graduating on August 13, 2016. This group of 25 girls will bring the total of adolescent girls and young women that have graduated from this program to 360 since the THINK Home opened in 2003.

THINK Safe Home provided services to 15 survivors, 10 new cases of sexual violence, 4 girls who are victims of human trafficking and 1 girl in need of protection. The THINK Juvenile Transit Center provided shelter and services to 13 children that came in contact or conflict with the law, 7 children needing protection and 7 Missing children. The two shelters served 43 children, 12 reunified, the safe home had 17 and the Juvenile transit Center had 26 children during the quarter. There are presently 43 survivors in the two shelters.
All of the children received initial medical assessment and had follow up medical visits and follow up visits to the police at the offices of the Women and Children’s Protection Section (WACPS), Central Police Station.
Clinical management and treatment provided for 30 children (2 males and 28 females) at one of the One Stop Centers for Sexual Violence supervised by THINK during this quarter.
A new Rehabilitation and Training Center was constructed at the Monrovia Central Prison during the quarter for female and juvenile inmates in that facility. Psychosocial counseling and medical First Aid along with literacy, computer skills and tailoring will be taught .

Turning over the facility

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