On the ground · Kenya
Shelter & Recovery
In Kenya, we build safe shelters for survivors of domestic violence and work hand in hand with professional counsellors — because escaping the violence is only the first step. Recovering from it is the journey.
Why shelter isn't enough
Most survivors who want to leave an abusive home face the same impossible question: where would I even go? Without a safe place to land, leaving can be more dangerous than staying — so the cycle continues, and children grow up inside it.
But a roof alone doesn't heal what years of violence have done. Trauma untreated becomes trauma inherited. That's why every shelter we build is paired with professional counselling — trauma-informed, person-centred support that helps survivors and their children process the past and reclaim their future.
This is the heart of our work to end domestic violence: protect first, then heal, then rebuild.
What we're building
A safe place to land. A real way forward.
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Safe shelters
We build and support safe housing where survivors and their children can land the moment they leave — a locked door, a bed, and immediate needs met, no questions asked.
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Counselling & recovery
We work with professional, trauma-informed counsellors offering one-on-one and group support, so survivors can process what happened and rebuild their sense of self.
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Paths to independence
Recovery isn't complete until a survivor can stand on her own. We connect women to skills training, savings groups, and income so leaving never means losing everything.
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Community prevention
We work with local leaders, families, and schools to challenge the silence and norms that allow violence to continue — so fewer women ever need a shelter.
The recovery journey
From surviving to thriving
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Safety
A survivor and her children arrive at a shelter. Immediate needs — safety, food, medical care — come first, before anything else is asked of her.
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Healing
With trained counsellors, at her own pace, she begins trauma recovery — individually and alongside women who understand, because they've lived it too.
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Independence
With skills, savings, and support, she rebuilds: her own income, a safe home, her children back in school. The cycle stops with her.
Healing is how the cycle actually breaks.
A woman who recovers doesn't just save herself. She raises children who know what safety feels like, who learn that violence is not love, and who carry that knowledge into their own families.
Every survivor who rebuilds her life quietly rewrites the future of a whole family line. That is the work.
Help us open the next door.
Fund a shelter, sponsor counselling sessions, or bring your professional skills — every contribution moves a survivor forward.
Stay connected
Follow the work as it happens
Stories from the field, program updates, and ways to help — a short email, a few times a year.