Empowerment leads to transformative Justice
Empowerment leads to transformative justice
As Nellie’s moves into the next 50 years, our focus is on more than being a crisis organization for women escaping violence, it’s also on breaking the cycle of violence through prevention and empowerment. This shift from reaction to proactive action is crucial in ending gender-based violence for good.
How does empowerment change lives?
How does empowerment change lives?
Through our empowerment programs we not only teach self-defense skills to protect our clients and our community against violence, but also how to tap into the power they already have within themselves.
We have seen how empowerment self-defense plays a significant role in helping women and children achieve transformative justice. Where traditional restorative justice practices aren’t possible or appropriate—for example, mediation between a client and the perpetrator of the violence against them—empowerment courses can provide a comparable sense of peace for the individual and enable them to move forward.
Empowerment training, alongside our advocacy and other support-based programming, enables women to tap into their inherent resilience and reclaim their strength, power, and autonomy. They are able to find a new path for their life, free from gender-based violence and full of optimism, hope, and opportunity. Learn more about our empowerment programs.
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Empowerment breaks the cycle of violence, meaning we’re shifting the tide from how many people need to turn to places like Nellie’s, to how we are truly changing the world.
With your support, we can empower more women and their children today and create a tomorrow free of oppression and violence. Thank you for standing with us.