Northern Region: Sexual, gender-based violence victims get help

A few weeks to the examination, a young man, with the consent of her parents, abducted her into his room and locked her up for a number of days. She was abused severally after she resisted attempts by the young man to have sexual intercourse with her.

One afternoon she managed to escape from captivity and rushed to a police station in Tamale for support. She was issued a medical form to seek treatment at the hospital.

According to the victim, while at the hospital for treatment, a health worker who was attending to her placed a call through the helpline called AGOO SHE+ to seek support for her. 

Upon discharge from the hospital, she indicated that offi cials from the helpline supported her with shelter, food and medications. After recovering, Ms Fuseini went back to school to write the BECE and gained admission to the Karaga Senior High School. “In fact, the AGOO SHE+ Helpline team did everything for me, they helped me to fully recover and continue my education. They bought all my school’s prospectus when I got admission to SHS, and they are still helping me, without them I would have dropped out of school,” she said.