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Weʼve raised £880 to Can You See Me - Dealing with mental health stigma associated with sexual abuse in adolescents girls is very difficult.
- Funded on Sunday, 21st May 2023
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The time is now before another generation of girls is lost to the crippling effects of severe mental illness and health disorders in adolescents’ girls in Sierra Leone.
Due to acceptable social norms towards some traditional harmful practices, there is a reluctance to help victims or survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM), rape or child exploitation because many often don’t see such act as abuse or harm.
There are no specific therapeutic services available to deal with the mental illness of adolescent girls in Sierra Leone.
With our Can You See Me campaign we want to bring mental health practitioners specializing in working with adolescent girls’ mental health. We will be providing the girls with 6-12 sessions of therapy and support in 3 communities with a high prevalence rates of abuse in Sierra Leone.
Led by the experiences of survivors of abuse we know what it means to be left out or excluded. We want to do more to help bring services to these girls.
By bringing therapeutics services and support directly to them we will change their lives. We welcome donations of any amounts.
We are fundraising £10,000 to bring specialist services to the girls in their own communities. Your donations allow us to pay for a vital team who will deliver and manage this project.
Help us make this happen.
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Alimatu Dimonekene
1 year agoWe have just received our biggest donation of £500 towards our #CanYouSeeMe campaign on tackling the stigma around mental illness in adolescents girls affected by abuse from FGM, rape and child exploitation. Join us by making a donation of any amounts. Thank you
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Alice
Apr 24, 2023
Working for adolescent victims of abuse to find their voices into survivorship. Thank you for speaking so movingly to our National Alliance of Women NAWO) UK AGM. You are an inspiration Alima!
£120.00
Anonymous
Jan 28, 2023
£100.00
Amy Kean
Jan 26, 2023
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£30.00
Davar
Jan 23, 2023
Patti Craig
Jan 18, 2023
£5.00
Andy
Jan 18, 2023
Great work as always x
£20.00
Anna
Jan 18, 2023
£5.00
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Alimatu Dimonekene
We at A Girl At A Time Sierra Leone have worked for years with adolescent girls and have dealt with the fear and concerns they have raised by the stigma associated with female genital mutilation (FGM), sexual abuse, rape and child exploitation (mend pikin).