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| Medical Aid and Rehabilitation Assistance
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HHR’s Medical Aid and Rehabilitation Assistance Program for survivors of torture helps achieve medical and psychosocial rehabilitation of torture victims/survivors. Every year since its inception in 1987, the program has assisted dozens of torture victims/survivors overcome their ordeals, reintegrate themselves into society, and begin rebuilding a normal and healthy life.
Beneficiaries of our rehabilitation program have survived some horrific treatment. They have been threatened, beaten, raped, starved, confined for months in dark spaces, and hung upside down for days. They have had genitals mutilated, limbs hacked off, fingernails removed, and their eyes doused with spices.
HHR ensures that torture victims/survivors receive every opportunity possible to recover mentally, physically, and emotionally from their ordeals. We refer victims/survivors to physicians and psychiatrists specializing in rehabilitation of torture victims/survivors. We also provide them with the funds they need for medicines, visual or aural aids, surgery, traveling expenses, and physical and emotional therapy.
Furthermore, we help torture victims/survivors regain economic independence. We provide them with funds to secure the tools and supplies necessary to pursue their trades. For example, we have aided torture victims/survivors with equipment to pursue careers in masonry, startup costs to open refreshment stands, and cages and chickens to build poultry farms. Where necessary, we will also provide victims/survivors with technical training for new careers if their old ones are no longer feasible.
Along with financial support, we also provide the constant social support many torture victims/survivors need to rebuild the confidence to once again live a physically, emotionally, and economically secure life.
Primary financial assistance for HHR’s Medical Aid and Rehabilitation Assistance Program comes from the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture.
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