WOMEN INSPIRATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER SHELTER FOR THE ABUSED DREAM COMES TRUE

It has been a dream for a very long time to have a place where survivors of domestic violence could be spending time to move away from their place of abuse for their safety and sanity.

Shelter for the abuse is not something that is easy to come by in Nigeria. In fact, apart from Lagos and Abuja, it is only in three other states out of the remaining 34 states in Nigeria that have something like shelter for the abuse in Nigeria.

We have lost many lives as a result of not having a place to keep the women away from their place of abuse before their cases are being resolved and for about 4 years, this has been a serious burden in the heart of WIDC team.

The shelter became a reality as a result of our winning the Girls Fund Award of Global Giving and were having support from the fund generated through the Girls Fund campaign consistently for 18 months.

Before we finished the three-bedroom flat shelter, 6 survivors were already waiting to occupy the place. One of them is a 14 years old mother that was impregnated by her step-father. To hide the crime, the mother of the girl when the pregnancy was beginning to show send the girl away from her husband house and brough her to a far away town and abandon the girl in a dilapidated house and ran away.

The girl was there till she gave birth to her baby and was always on the street to beg for food. Her baby was 5 months old when she was rescued by our team.

Another of the survivors presently at the shelter is a 15 years old orphan with 34 weeks pregnancy, she will give birth to her baby at any time. She was raped and held hostage by a drug addict. She had a lot of knife wound on her body when she was rescued.

We are so excited at WIDC for the achievement of this shelter and we are so grateful to all the people that contributed to it through Global Giving Girls Fund Campaign. The shelter as it is will be servicing at least 6 states in Nigeria.