Survivor-Led · Trauma-Informed · Culturally Rooted
Survivor-Led · Trauma-Informed · Culturally Rooted
Sexual Violence Awareness · Survivor-Led · Culturally Rooted
We work to end sexual violence against African women and girls by expanding ACCESS to safe housing, trauma-informed care, and community-based healing programs both in person and online in Maine and in partnership with a locally led organization in Kenya. Through this work, survivors are supported to heal, rebuild, and lead within their communities.
Where We Work
We meet African women where they are — in Kenya, in Maine, and anywhere in the world online. Each location has its own programs, but all are rooted in the same values: safety, healing, and empowerment.
Kenya, Africa
Safe Housing · Education · Economic Empowerment
In Kenya, we walk alongside survivors through our partnership with a locally led, community-based organization. Together, we support the City of Peace Safe House, which provides shelter for pregnant teens, young mothers, and girls escaping sexual violence—offering a safe home, access to education, and a pathway toward healing and independence.
Maine, USA
Movement · Nature · Peer Support
In Maine, we create culturally rooted spaces for African and immigrant women to heal, reconnect, and rebuild after trauma — through the Maine Afro Yoga Project, outdoor healing, and trusted peer support networks.
Global · Online
African Women · Diaspora · Monthly via Zoom
For African women anywhere in the world — on the continent or in the diaspora — our monthly online healing circle offers a safe, confidential, culturally grounded space to breathe, connect, and heal in community. No sharing required.
Our Approach
Every survivor’s journey is different. Our work moves through three phases — meeting women in their moment of crisis, walking with them toward wholeness, and transforming the communities around them.
We identify survivors of sexual violence and human trafficking and provide immediate, life-changing interventions: emergency safe housing, healthcare, and protection for women and girls in crisis — in Kenya and beyond.
We offer holistic, long-term support so women can fully rebuild their lives — mental health care, education, economic empowerment, movement-based healing, and culturally grounded peer community in Kenya, Maine, and online.
We work with communities to transform the harmful norms that allow violence to continue. Through sports, storytelling, art, and advocacy, we build cultures where every girl is protected, celebrated, and free.
Why This Work Matters
Sexual violence is one of the most pervasive violations of human dignity in the world — and African women and girls are disproportionately impacted. We define sexual violence broadly: rape, child sexual abuse, trafficking, forced marriage, domestic servitude, and FGM.
“When women are given safety, tools, and community, they don’t just heal. They lead.”
This is why Wounded Healers International was founded by a survivor, for survivors. Our approach is rooted in lived experience, cultural connection, and the belief that healing is not only possible — it is a right.
Make a Difference Today
Your gift goes directly to women and girls who need it most — from the City of Peace Safe House in Kenya to healing spaces in Maine to women joining our circle from across the world.
