SGBV Support for Survivors of War
Fòs Feminista partners in Poland help women and girls—including those fleeing Ukraine—through hotlines in three languages, a new health center, safe shelter, and financial aid.
Issue
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
We work alongside communities to dismantle harmful norms, protect survivors, and build a future free from sexual and gender-based violence.
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) won’t end until we confront the toxic gender norms that sustain it.
That’s why our approach to prevention and survivor care starts here:
- Preventing violence starts in childhood.
The attitudes, stereotypes, and norms kids learn early shape their relationships for decades, so prevention must start there. - Sex education prevents gender-based violence
Rights-based sex ed equips young people to reject toxic gender norms, build more equitable relationships, and prevent intimate partner violence. - Men and boys must be part of the solution
We work with them to embrace positive masculinity, challenge toxic norms, and stop violence in their communities. Fathers learn to build safe, loving bonds that help break the cycle for the next generation. - Justice starts with healing
Justice means more than safety. Survivors need emergency contraception, STI testing, safe abortion, legal help, and counseling. Your support ensures they find that care—in clinics, shelters, and online. - SGBV risks are highest for marginalized women and girls
Violence impacts one in three women worldwide. For women and girls from historically excluded communities, and those uprooted by war or disaster, the danger is multiplied when essential care is denied.
1.3M
services delivered to women and other survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (2023-2024)
Fòs Feminista provides medical care, counseling, legal aid, and protection—always with dignity, confidentiality, and compassion.
Fòs Feminista partner Profamilia provides comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, including clinical, psychological, legal, and social services.
Preventing SGBV through Safe Attachment Parenting
Fòs Feminista partner Iniciativas Sanitarias helps new mothers and fathers learn to form healthy attachments with their children—breaking patterns that can lead to violence later in life.
Safe Havens for Women Survivors of SGBV
From Mexico’s Red Nacional de Refugios to KMET’s Freedom House in Kenya, women and girls escaping violence gain safety—and access to medical, psychosocial, and legal care.
A Helping Hand
I began to feel that a helping hand was going to protect me, that someone could listen to me and find out what was going on. I began to tell her about the violence I had endured for 12 years.Survivor of violence describing how she felt when she first got support from Profamilia
Profamilia, Dominican Republic
Feminist Futures Free from Violence
In Latin America and the Caribbean, Fòs Feminista works with partners to ensure survivors of sexual and gender-based violence receive care while challenging the cultural, legal, and social barriers that fuel inequality. Our regional initiative combines education, services, legal reform, and community power to build a future free from violence.
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