Gender Equality Liberia Project #19501

Empowering Women and Girls

by Touching Humanity in Need of Kindness (THINK)

Project Report | Apr 18, 2017
Narrative Report April 15, 2017

By Rosana Schaack | Executive Director

THINK Safe Homes received 13 new admissions of human trafficking cases referred by World Hope International, 1 rape case referred by the One Stop Center at Duport Road One Stop Center and 2 in contact with the law (Run Away cases).
Age disaggregation: (0 – 5) 0, (6 – 12) 13 (13 – 17) 3, (> 18) 0 residents. The residents went for follow up hospital visits and police investigations. The 10 residents received individual counseling and were participants of group - counseling. The survivors participated in creative art, recreation and educational activities. At present, there are 10 survivors in the safe home. Three girls referred to THINK August 27, 2016, for protection from Female Genital Cutting were reunified with caregivers March 25, 2017. The girls are happy in their new home and have been enrolled in school.
THINK provided literacy and numeracy classes for the 10 clients that are divided into three levels using the Alternative to Basic Education (ABE) curriculum.
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 Protection Section (WACPS) at various Police Stations.
(Women and Children Protection Section (WACPS), Central Police Station, Zone 8 Base and Zone 5 Base, Zone 1 Base and Zone 4 Base).
THINK continues to supervise and provide medical and psychosocial counseling as part of the team at the One Stop Center for survivors of SGBV in two of the five facilities in Monrovia. During the month of March 2017, 39 survivors reported of which 2 were adult women, 1 male and 36 females all children under 18 years of age.

During the month of March, 2017, a team from The Life Center Family Worship of Pennsylvania, USA visited and ministered to the residents and staff of THINK. They gave donations of books and educational materials, clothing, food items toys and toiletries in three barrels.
THINK safe home also received a donation of 50 dresses, under clothes, and toys from a philanthropist group in London. Our sincere thanks and appreciation goes out to all who continue to donate to THINK. Gifts in kind are always used by the residents most of whom come with just the clothes that they arrive in.

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