Goal
1. Provide safe transitional housing and permanent housing support and offer other essential resources for survivors and their children.
2. Deliver trauma-informed counseling services and peer support, fostering healing and resilience.
3. Facilitate job skills development, life skills training, and job placement, and entrepreneurship support. This economically empowers women and strengthens their autonomy and rights.
4. Conduct widespread and targeted community outreach and awareness initiatives to educate communities and reduce stigma around GBV.
Currently, we offer a range of integrated services:
- Transitional Housing: Secure, temporary accommodation for women survivors of domestic violence, and children, with pathways to permanent housing.
- Counseling Services: Faith-based, trauma-informed counseling for survivors and their children, open to both residents and community referrals. Counseling services will be provided using a standard counseling plan that addresses the mental disorder of abuse and integrates spiritual care into behavior modification. This addresses the stigma of seeking mental health services and aligns with the cultural context of Nigeria.
- Women’s Economic Empowerment: Skills training in catering, tailoring, IT, etc., and small business management, plus job preparation, readiness and placement.
- Community Awareness: Outreach in schools, churches, and local groups, and communities at large, using storytelling and educational campaigns to shift attitudes and inform about gender-based violence (GBV).
- Survivor-led Peer Support (Arise and Empower Peer Support initiative): Survivor-led peer mentoring and support groups to foster community and mutual empowerment.
- Warm Line Services: A helpline offering immediate emotional support and resource referrals by trained lay counselors.
- Legal Support Referrals: Connection to free or subsidized legal services. To facilitate access to legal services
Who we Serve
Talitha Cumi Empowerment project, is a women-focused project under the International Health Promotion Initiative. Our motto, “Maiden, Arise!”, reflects our mission to create and expand awareness about gender-based violence, particularly domestic violence, and to provide holistic support that empowers women to live safely and free from abuse. Registered with a strong local presence, we serve women survivors of domestic violence and their dependents in Enugu city, Abuja city and neighboring communities
Program Plan
- Intake – Identify Needs
- Start Counseling – For Woman and Children (If children are with the woman)
- Settlement – Get the woman and children settled and provide needed items such as clothes, shoes, toys, etc.
- Planning – Meeting with Staff to develop a plan – setting goal, domestic violence training, counseling, job training/business planning, job placement, housing search and placement, peer support training.
- Counseling – Counseling for survivors at the center (other community residents can attend upon referral)
- Job Training – Catering, Events planning, Baking, Sewing, Hair Dressing, etc.
The FaceLift Project
Painting and refurbishing primary healthcare centers in Nigeria, ensuring they are welcoming spaces for care.
Community Assets Project
Building a searchable database of health-related resources across major Nigerian cities for easier access to care.
2021 — Free Checkup/Treatment
Free Medical Check-up and Treatment for Women and Girls of Reproductive Age with Dr. Hope and Nurse Justina, every Saturday March to May, 9am – 3pm at Garki Medical Laboratory, Abuja – 2021
2024 — Free Medical Outreach
November 30th, 2024 10am – 6pm Free Medical Outreach Services – Hypertension screening, Diabetes screening, Eye check and provision of glasses, Deworming – Consultants – Dr. S.D. Goji, Matron Laitu Sotaya, Nurse Justina Michael @ HELPER Diagnostic Center, Abuja (Partners – HELPER Diagnostic Center, Tolu Pakad Pharmacy)
2024 — Free Medical Outreach
December 3rd, 2024 10am – 6pm – Free Medical Outreach Services – Hypertension screening, Diabetes screening, Eye check and provision of glasses, Deworming – Consultants – Dr. S.D. Goji, Matron Laitu Sotaya, Nurse Justina Michael @ Garki Medical Laboratory, Abuja (Partners – Garki Medical Laboratory, Dimples Medical Services)
Ongoing Activity
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