The Mirabel Centre is a safe, friendly and conducive place where one can get free help after going through the trauma of a r**e or sexual assault. The goal of the Mirabel Centre is “to provide holistic and quality services and support to survivors of sexual assault in a compassionate and caring manner, where each individual’s specific needs, and their rights to make choices on how to address those
needs, are respected and met”. At the Mirabel Centre we support victims who have been Sexually Assaulted. Above all a person needs two things: to be listened to and to decide themselves to deal with the assault. The important thing is for the person to regain a sense of control over their life since the assault may have left them feeling powerless. In order to regain that sense of control, people need:
• To be believed
• To be listened to
• To feel safe after the assault
• A non-judgmental attitude
• Understanding of their trauma
• To be in control of what is happening
• Permission to talk about the attack at their own pace
• Information they may need
• Encouragement
• Validation of their experience and reactions to be supported
In 8 years of operation, the Mirabel Centre has provided direct free medical care and psychosocial support to over 6,500+ survivors of r**e and sexual assault (including men, women and children). The youngest survivor was a 3-month-old baby and the oldest, an 80-year- old woman. Itoro Eze-Anaba founded the Mirabel Centre when working on domestic violence issues as a lawyer. While campaigning for the Domestic Violence Bill, which she drafted, she discovered how little support r**e survivors were getting in Nigeria. Our mission is to continue to provide free professional care and support to survivors of r**e and sexual violence irrespective of when the incident happened. THE MIRABEL CENTRE
Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, Lagos
Managed by Partnership for Justice
Tel: 08155770000, 07013491769, 08187243468, 01-2957816
www.pjnigeria.org
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