₦airaland Forum

Lagos, Nigeria, a city of 21 million has only a handful
of rape crisis centres and the largest is in danger of
closing.





Started in 2013 by Partnership for Justice, the
Mirabel Centre has helped hundreds of rape victims,
many of them minors, adjust physically and mentally
to the aftermath of assault. The centre is housed in a
dim corridor in the Lagos State Teaching Hospital and
has a small dedicated staff. These women have
worked tirelessly with an underserved and often
unacknowledged population.



But after two years,
their funding from the UK Department for
International Development is due to come to an end
and this vital and necessary organization is faced
with shutting their doors on the rape survivors they
desperately want to help.



Survivors like Mercy :
“One day she returned from school with three
friends. A 17-year-old male cousin had been
harassing her, and that night he brought four
other men to the house. For Mercy, everything
from the moment he began to rape her is a blur.
Her next memory is of waking up in the hospital
the following day, and being told what had
happened.
All of the girls were raped, possibly multiple
times by more than one of the attackers, but
Mercy does not know for sure because she
blacked out. One of her friends did not survive;
another died last year as a result of the injuries
she sustained on that night. Mercy and one other
girl are now the only survivors .”





Their funding is coming to an end and securing
financial backing has been fruitless as many
corporate funders don’t want to be connected to a
rape centre. The purpose of this gofundme campaign
is to help keep the Mirabel Centre open for the
foreseeable future while more permanent funding is
secured. It costs about $50 to help one survivor. $
5000 will serve 100 and every dollar counts to test,
feed and counsel all who walk through the centre’s
doors seeking support.




The Mirabel Centre is
essential to the ecosystem of such a large population
and we cannot let it close.

Help us #SaveMirabel.



Ms. Itoro Eze-Anaba of Partnership for Justice, which
runs the Mirabel Centre, has given permission to
raise funds on behalf of the centre. All funds (minus
gofundme's cut) will be given to Partnership for
Justice in it's entirety.




www.gofundme.com/SaveMirabel

Donate here https://www.gofundme.com/SaveMirabel/donate

cc: dominique Sissy3 lalasticlala

double post

You are doing great job, #Mirabel. And, I pray you get through this funding ish. Knowing how difficult it could be getting funders, howbeit , when God closes the window, somewhere he opens the Door. Wishing you open doors, financially.

#Sharing #SaveMirabel.

Did I just read that corporate funders are shying away from funding this because they don't wanna be tagged? I don't understand!

Gboliwe:
Did I just read that corporate funders are shying away from funding this because they don't wanna be tagged? I don't understand!

Exactly seems ridiculous by the way.

$12 to go
http://www.gofundme.com/savemirabel

Whoops Exceeded by $8 http://www.gofundme.com/savemirabel

$6334 as at 15:24 GMT http://www.gofundme.com/savemirabel