Physical Health Mexico Project #40118

Healthcare for 96 Women&Children Violence Victims

by Centro de Derechos de las victimas de violencia Minerva Bello, A. C.

Healthcare for 96 Women&Children Violence Victims

Summary

This project will provide psychological and traditional medical attention to women and children from Guerrero of two groups of relatives of disappeared persons, who search for their missing loved ones. Their attention will reduce the damage the disappearance has caused them and help them heal. Healthier women and children will be able to continue searching for their loved ones and become examples of resilience and poles of solidarity to which other victims may go, breaking the circle of violence

$6,287
total raised

61
donors

0
monthly donors

4
years

Challenge

Guerrero is one of the most violent states in Mexico. One of the ways in which this violence is expressed is the disappearance of people, mostly young men with family, which has left thousands of women and children without their sons, husbands, and fathers. Those tend to develop post-traumatic stress, depression, and anxiety, get isolated from their communities and, in some cases, the violence has fostered the appearance of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and even cancer.

Solution

Psychological and traditional medical attention will be provided to 96 women and children from Guerrero of two groups of relatives of disappeared persons. This attention will consist of traditional Mexican medicine, herbal medicine, and nutrition plans, aimed at recovering their physical health. Likewise, they will be offered individual and collective therapy, aimed at their emotional containment, the rethinking of their life projects and the re-establishment of links with their communities.

Long-Term Impact

The psychological and traditional medical attention of those women and children will reduce the physical and emotional damages the disappearance has caused them and will help them to heal in an integral way. Healthier women and children will be able to consider new life projects, continue the search for their missing loved ones, return to their communities as examples of resilience, and become poles of solidarity to which other victims will be able to go, helping to break the circle of violence.