Help Rescue 500 Battered Women And Their Children

by Pathways to Safety International
Help Rescue 500 Battered Women And Their Children
Help Rescue 500 Battered Women And Their Children
Help Rescue 500 Battered Women And Their Children
Help Rescue 500 Battered Women And Their Children
Help Rescue 500 Battered Women And Their Children
Help Rescue 500 Battered Women And Their Children
Help Rescue 500 Battered Women And Their Children
Help Rescue 500 Battered Women And Their Children
Help Rescue 500 Battered Women And Their Children
Help Rescue 500 Battered Women And Their Children

When Patricia emailed our crisis advocate she didnt think she would ever make it home back to the USA alive.

Her husband had become so controlling and violent she felt she was walking on eggshells every minute of the day. Her son Solomon was afraid of his father. But children develop different coping mechnisms and Solomon began emulating his father's anger outbursts.

Our crisis email advocate was able to offer Patricia guidance, emotional support, explain different options that were available to her and connected her with a domestic violence shelter in the USA she and Solomon could go to once she was able to escape and get back home.

Patricia recently reached out again via email. She and Solomon are safe and living in shelter because of you!

We can't thank you enough! Your donations help victims like Patricia and Solomon every day reach back home to safety!

The  Pathways Team

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In 2022 we continued to receive hundreds of requests for help from American mothers and their children experiencing abuse abroad. Our crisis email inbox is filled with heart breaking story after heart breaking story.

They reach out to us for support because they are unable to get it elsewhere. Victims who have exhausted every resource and been told nothing could be done. They reach out to us desperately grasping for a sliver of hope. Even just someone to hear them, to believe them. 

Because of your donations, we continue to provide assistance to the most desperate and vulnerable victims around the world.

Victims like Nathanial and his mother Jenny. Who are now safe back home in the USA because they were able to receive information, emotional support, safety planning and resources from our crisis email advocate.

Nathanial happily building a snowman is a world away from the world he was suffering in. And you made that possible!

We wish you a 2023 filled with peace & happiness!

The Pathways' Team

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Kamaria started emailing our crisis advocates almost one year ago. She was desperate to come home to the USA with her daughter, Delphi, and get away from the abuse of her husband.

Continuing pandemic travel restrictions, and several other factors, made it impossible for Kamaria to escape. The best we could do was to provide Kamaria with safety planning and emotional support, while continuing to have things in place when the opportunity arose.

Finally, just last month, Kamaria and Delphi made it home safely.  Here is part of an email from Kamaria. "You were a hand reaching out to me in the darkness. At times, the only thing that gave me hope..."

Your donations make it possible to continue to provide email advocacy to battered American mothers in foreign countries seeking any form of support to help ease the suffering of themselves and their children.

Thank you so very much!

The Pathways' Team

*In these reports, we may change the name of the victim and may use a photo that is a likeness, but not the actual photo of the victim, for safety purposes.

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Bethany contacted Pathways via email earlier this year. She was desperate to come home to the US with her daughter Estia. Bethany was exhausted from years of verbal and emotional abuse from her husband. He was never pysically abusive but the insults, demeaning, invalidation of her as a wife, a mother and a woman had eroded away any sense of self-worth.

Our crisis email advocate was able to provide Bethany with emotional support, helping her understand that her husband's treatment of her was not her fault and did not reflect who she was as a person

Slowly Bethany gained confidence, purchased airline tickets and flew home with Estia.

So many times victims just need to be heard, to be validated of their worth, before they can make the decisions necessary to remove themselves from abuse.

Your support of this project made this possible for Bethany and her daughter Estia. And for so many other victims.

Thank you for your generous heart. The Pathways Team

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Giselle has been desperately waiting to escape her abuser with her daughter Amber. Travel restrictions and her abuser working from home during the pandemic made it nearly impossible for Giselle to flee back to the USA for safety. As the abuse escalated, Giselle began to think she would never make it home with Amber.

Amber was terrified of her father. She begged Giselle to take her to Nana's and Papy's house back in the USA.

Our email advocate spent much of 2021 and early 2022 communicating with Giselle providing the only life-line of hope available. Finally they were able to formulate a plan to help her and Amber escape the abuse and return to the USA.

Here is part of an email from Giselle: "Without Kate (Pathways victim advocate) I don't know how I would have made it through the past year. Her words of encouagement are all I had left at times. Amber and I are settling back into a "normal" life. I don't have the words to express how thankful I am."

Supporters like you make this work possible. We can't thank you enough for believing in our mission!

The Pathways Team

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Location: Portland, OR - USA
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Paula Lucas
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Portland , OR United States
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