The residential shelter provides women and girls, from an isolated region of Central America, with assistance and safety as they escape violence and sexual abuse.
How Donors Like You Helped
Thanks to donors like you, a total of $1,804 was raised for this project.
In the last few decades Waslala, an extremely isolated region just north of Nicaragua, has experienced intense armed conflict, and as a result has high regional and domestic violence and sexual abuse rates. Abuse victims, generally women and girls, need physical, emotional, and legal support. The residential shelter houses 15-25 women and children and allows them to leave traumatic pasts and begin to recover, both emotionally and physically. Once women are ready, they reenter their community.
Activities
Women are provided with a safe residence and participate in programs that provide emotional recuperation and legal support to assist with issues such as protection of children, divorce, and legalization of properties.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $1,804
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding.
Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as
indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the
"Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $1,804. The original project funding goal was $10,285.
Open a new shelter that houses up to 25 women and their children. The project provides emotional support and legal assistance to women who will ultimately reintegrate into their community.
Project Message
In Nicaragua every day, two young women between 14 and 25 years-old are raped and 12 are beaten or battered. The shelter is a safe haven for Waslala’s battered women to learn to protect their rights.
- Ana Criquillion, Executive Director
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Carla Lopez,
Programs Coordinator.
De la Rotunda El Gueguense 4 cuadros abajo, 1 al lado Managua,
Nicaragua
505-254-4982
Email:
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