END CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE & SUPPORT THOSE IMPACTED

With limited funding and fierce competition for resources in this sector, launching an organisation like mine is an uphill battle. Every bit of help is crucial to provide support for our community and I am grateful for any help or guidance you can give me.

What does it feel like to be a victim of childhood sexual abuse? I have always felt like I don't belong and togetherness is what I value and long for the most. The resilience that helped me to survive 10 years of sexual assault and rape is the same resilience that appears to others that I'm fine. I have always felt misunderstood, do I give myself permission to surrender to the agonising physical and mental pain and break down, to show the world that I am not fine and need help? Or do I continue to hold it together because the reality is that there is no support for victims of sexual violence?

The later.

I've held it together for so long, because I had no choice, that I have changed. The pain has been, lingered for some time, and gone. Much to my relief, I no longer crave apologies from those who hurt me, I no longer questions "the why" instead I feel equipped and determined to support our community. To ensure no one else feels as abandoned, isolated, helpless and unsupported as I have.

The things I have learned as a child who survived a campaign of abuse, a young adult who navigated my way into the world with that burden, as a women who pursued justice and sent her abuser to jail and went on to support other victims - I want to share with others. If our community better understands the reality of this endemic then we can make a change, cultivate a future where perpetrators know abuse will not be tolerated and victims will be protected.

MY STEPFATHER WAS A RAPIST AND I PUT HIM IN PRISON

I am launching an advocacy organisation to deliver education and awareness to statutory and non-statutory organisations and to businesses and groups all over the country.

My vision is that every household has some knowledge about the impact of sexual abuse, how to support those effected and the reality of our broken justice system and the impact it has on victims. My values will not falter and truth is at the forefront of the work that I will do.

I am launching my organisation on 12th October 2024.

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THANK YOU!

Please don't hesitate to get in contact with me if you want to learn more.