Hope for the Abused and Battered (H4AB)

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Hope for the Abused and Battered (H4AB) is a non-profit organization that provides supporting services which promote emotional resilience to people battered by life, regardless of age, sexual orientation, race and political or religious affiliation, in their search for ways to overcome the fears and conflicts and separation that accompanies personal crisis.
Our core areas of focus are: Domestic Violence and Gender Based Violence, Mental Health and Mental Illness, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Emotional Wellness. Hope for the Abused and Battered head office is locate in Douala, Cameroon, but or sphere of impacts transcends national boundaries.

Focus areas:
• Domestic Violence and Gender Based Violence
• Mental Health and Mental Illness
• Adverse Childhood Experiences
• Emotional Wellness

What We Do
• We offer psychological, legal and holistic counseling to people who have been abused and battered and now need hope.
• We empower them in a holistic way to get back up and believe in themselves again, and in their future.
• Through donors and partners, we pull resources together which enable us, as an organization, offer such hope and empowerment by Grace.

Projects
• TARape - Together against Rape: TARape is a synergy our conceived to rally associations and persons of good will so that together we run anti-rape and sexual abuse campaigns in Cameroon with primary target beneficiaries being children of school going age and young adolescents as well as their parents and caretakers. Having worked with over 20 kids victims of sexual abuse including rape, sodomy and incest, we realized this pandemic wasn’t one we could affront alone.
• A A F - Awareness; advocacy and facilitation for IDPs (Internally displaced persons): This is an ongoing project partially funded by the ARDF (African Regional Democracy Fund) program of the US Embassy in Cameroon. It is a project whose main objective is to raise awareness about and advocate for the rights of these vulnerable people who have been internally displaced by a violent crisis in the two English speaking regions of the Cameroon. The aim of the project is equally to mitigate the effects of violence and civil unrest on the mental health of the Internally displaced persons (IDPs) affected by the ongoing crises in Cameroon. This project will fulfill the dual objectives of both reducing social stigma towards mental health challenges within communities hosting large numbers of internally displaced persons, as well as advocating for the human rights of all Cameroonians struggling with mental health issues.
• The Hope food Barn: Through this project, we intend to build a small food barn and fill up same with food items to be redistributed to the Internally displaced persons we are identifying in the city of Douala, Cameroon. We are also working on starting a tailoring workshop for IDPs in Bonaberi Douala, hence the hope shop project where we can sell the finished products they will produce both virtually and at the center. Proceeds from these sales will be shared with them and the organization. We will plough our share back into the food barn, and to run other activities of ours.
• Shelter for victims of Domestic Abuse and Gender Based Violence; as well as for victims and survivors of rape and sexual abuse. These shelters will have both in person and out person facilities. Our founder currently runs such a shelter Children victims of rape in her home.
• Mental health care support center in the city of Douala Cameroon. In the city of Douala Cameroon which is the economic capital of Cameroon, for a population of over 2.5 millions, there is only one public psychiatric ward in the main public hospital called Laquentine. There are a few other private neuro-psychiatric centers, but no mental health care support centre. Having worked for 2 months at the psychiatric ward mentioned, and witnessed 1st hand the challenges on the ground with only one resident psychiatrist and no psychologist, our founder who holds both a diploma in psychology and in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, wishes to dedicate her services to such a center where people abused and battered by life and now living with/and or affected by a mental illness or mental health challenge can come for support care services; and where their caregivers and families could meet to create support groups and support each other through it all.

Marie Angele Abanga is the Founder and CEO of Hope for the Abused and Battered (H4AB).

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