Ark Foundation re-opens shelter for abused women

By Elizabeth Ofosu, GNA

Accra, July 9, GNA – The Ark Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, has re-opened its Shelter for Abused Women.

Also known as ‘The Ark Shelter for Battered Women,’ the home, which is located in the Eastern Region, also offers temporary accommodation for children and sexually assaulted girls.

Mr. Rex Delanyo, Programmes Manager at Ark Foundation who made this known to the Ghana News Agency in an interview, said the organisation had been lawfully licensed to operate and offer psycho-social services to clients, who had been assessed as requiring services such as temporary accommodation, feeding and other basic necessities of life, crisis intervention, counselling and social/family enquiry.

Other services are educational, medical, legal (Police/Court) support, skills training, maternal care, psychological and pastoral care support, and rehabilitation, resettlement and re-integration services.

“Our clients include women and girls who have survived physical, sexual, and emotional abuse as well as neglect, trafficking and harmful traditional practices, such as child marriages.”

The Ark Foundation operates the shelter in collaboration with the Criminal Investigations Department and the Domestic Violence and Victims’ Support Unit of the Ghana Police Service; the Department of Social Welfare and Department of Children under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, FIDA-Ghana and others, Churches and benevolent individuals.

The Ark Foundation is a Christian Mission non-profit organisation that focuses on the protection of women and children through services provision, advocacy, education and training.

Its core work is prevention, protection and response to sexually and gender-based violence, including Domestic Violence.

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