Counselling and Advocacy

FAYOWODO emphasizes the importance of providing young women with emotional support and guidance as they navigate their personal and professional journeys. Many girls and young women are in a high level of desperation when they arrive at Faraja. For those girls and young women who have experienced trauma, such as severe physical or sexual abuse, we offer counselling with social workers and psychologists. By doing this we help them to overcome their traumas enable their rehabilitation and come back to a normal and joyful life. During the two-week orientation, the center invites experts such as doctors and psychologists to talk with the young mothers. They do breathing exercises, yoga, meditation, and empathy sessions on one to one. We invite experts frequently to the centre, depending on the resources available, but we also call them in when one of the young moms needs special assistance. We also work with lawyers in trying to achieve justice for the girls by taking their individual cases to court. Thanks to our donors we are able to pay the court fees in order to present cases of forced child marriage, human trafficking or sexual abuse.