By Melinda Reed | Project Leader
The two local community-based safe houses operating in Uvira, South Kivu, and Goma, North Kivu, assist about 1000 victims/survivors of sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) yearly. The Transit Houses provide medical assistance, psycho-social support, information and referral to legal clinics for survivors.
Having set up a mushroom farm, the Goma safe house provides survivors with relevant training on mushroom cultivation. This serves as a reintegration kit for survivors, as well as helps sustain the Transit House.
Besides providing medical and psycho-social support and reffering survivors to legal clinics, local partners hold outreach sessions raising awareness to reduce stigma for SGBV victims and stressing the importance of reporting SGBV incidents rather than accepting informal agreements with the perpetrator or the perpetrator’s family.
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