With over 800 youngsters in care of the state, the newly launched Women’s Refuge (WF) aims to reunite them with their mothers by offering shelter and services to these parents.
Women’s Refuge (WF) was officially launched yesterday by PATOIS (Personal Achievement to Overcome Individual Struggles). WF seeks to reunite families where children were removed due to abuse, abandonment or neglect.
At the opening ceremony, Lead Counsellor Colleen Baptiste explained that WF focuses on reforming single mothers through behavioural change. “We believe that if you empower an individual through behavioural change, you empower a family,” Baptiste said. She continued, “If you empower a family, you empower a community; if you empower a community, you empower a nation… What we provide here is
