By Dr. Laila Risgallah Wahba | Project Leader
These past three months, Not Guilty has been concentrating on training the less fortunate students. Since the publishing of my new book, What Happens AFter #MeToo- Tackling the Iceberg, many parents and teachers from less fortunate areas starting asking for training for their children and students.
This meant that those students couldn't pay anything, but since Not Guilty believes in its vision and mission of abolishing sexual abuse, we decided we will do this one particular training for free. There were 30 students aged 6-9 years old.
One of the boys was very quiet and stood far away all through the training. He did not want to be part of the training. When we were doing the part about boundaries, the boy colored himself black with a snake where his sex organs are. He said that he hated himself.
After the training, one of Not Guilty's professional counselors sat with him privately. SHe learned that his mentally challenged father was abusing him and that he would return drunk every night and abuse his boy, terrorizing him into not telling anyone.
After the training, the boy went back and faced his father. He told him that he learned he needed to have boundaries, that he needed to say NO and to report.
The amazing and quite unusual thing that happened was that the father repented. He asked his son to sleep with the mother in the room if he sees that he is returning drunk. He apologized to his son and promised never to do it again.
True that the boy still needs a lot of counseling, but so does the father.
It was so worth it to do this particular training for free, if only for that one boy.
Links:
By Laila Risgallah Wahba PhD | Project Leader
By Laila Risgallah PhD | Project Leader
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
Support this important cause by creating a personalized fundraising page.
Start a Fundraiser
