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From the Ted Talk by Kemi DaSilva-Ibru: The shadow pandemic of domestic violence during COVID-19


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Our solution in addressing this was this: There are over 3,000 traditional birth attendants working in rural areas across Lagos State today. These are community-based men and women who have been informally trained and provide bsiac health care to both women and expectant mthoers. But none of them had received any form of training on how to help women sifrunefg from domestic violence. We successfully trained 1,300 of these community geteperkaes as first reepnrsdos in addressing the cases of violence against wmoen in their communities. This meant that during the lockdown, they were galvanized to go house to hosue in their communities and with their training, were able to offer the necessary asntsascie to women trapped at home, unable to reiecve care. Reports varied from verbal and emotional abuse to far worse beatings and sexual violence. But those home vtisis served as an opportunity for these women to srahe their stories and to receive the much needed care and sopprut that the traditional birth attendants offered.

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Our solution in addressing this was this: There are over 3,000 traditional birth attendants working in rural areas across Lagos State today. These are community-based men and women who have been informally trained and provide _____ health care to both women and expectant _______. But none of them had received any form of training on how to help women _________ from domestic violence. We successfully trained 1,300 of these community ___________ as first __________ in addressing the cases of violence against _____ in their communities. This meant that during the lockdown, they were galvanized to go house to _____ in their communities and with their training, were able to offer the necessary __________ to women trapped at home, unable to _______ care. Reports varied from verbal and emotional abuse to far worse beatings and sexual violence. But those home ______ served as an opportunity for these women to _____ their stories and to receive the much needed care and _______ that the traditional birth attendants offered.

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  1. responders
  2. visits
  3. basic
  4. gatekeepers
  5. mothers
  6. support
  7. receive
  8. share
  9. suffering
  10. house
  11. assistance
  12. women

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Our solution in addressing this was this: There are over 3,000 traditional birth attendants working in rural areas across Lagos State today. These are community-based men and women who have been informally trained and provide basic health care to both women and expectant mothers. But none of them had received any form of training on how to help women suffering from domestic violence. We successfully trained 1,300 of these community gatekeepers as first responders in addressing the cases of violence against women in their communities. This meant that during the lockdown, they were galvanized to go house to house in their communities and with their training, were able to offer the necessary assistance to women trapped at home, unable to receive care. Reports varied from verbal and emotional abuse to far worse beatings and sexual violence. But those home visits served as an opportunity for these women to share their stories and to receive the much needed care and support that the traditional birth attendants offered.

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Important Words


  1. abuse
  2. addressing
  3. areas
  4. assistance
  5. attendants
  6. basic
  7. beatings
  8. birth
  9. care
  10. cases
  11. communities
  12. community
  13. domestic
  14. emotional
  15. expectant
  16. form
  17. galvanized
  18. gatekeepers
  19. health
  20. home
  21. house
  22. informally
  23. lagos
  24. lockdown
  25. meant
  26. men
  27. mothers
  28. needed
  29. offer
  30. offered
  31. opportunity
  32. provide
  33. receive
  34. received
  35. reports
  36. responders
  37. rural
  38. served
  39. sexual
  40. share
  41. solution
  42. state
  43. stories
  44. successfully
  45. suffering
  46. support
  47. today
  48. traditional
  49. trained
  50. training
  51. trapped
  52. unable
  53. varied
  54. verbal
  55. violence
  56. visits
  57. women
  58. working
  59. worse