Support for Survivors

WAR offers support to victims and survivors of gender based violence through the following programs:

Counseling

WAR offers psycho-social counselling to the victims, victims’ families, and perpetrators of gender based violence in order to provide complete healing and prevent further abuse.

Legal Aid

Legal Aid is the provision of legal services to indigents persons who need legal assistance to prosecute or defend their rights or resolve disputes that can be resolved by the application of the law. Women Against Rape has partnered with Attorney General Chambersy to provide Legal Aid services.

Who Qualifies for Legal Aid

Any Motswana who by the guidelines set in the means test is declared incapable of affording legal assistance to prosecute or defend his /her rights.
Means test is a tool which is used to determine whether a person could afford legal aid or not.
Legal aid services are available even for the employed person who passes the means test.

Legal Aid inclusions and exclusions

Inclusions

Family Matters (Divorce, Defilement)
Labour Disputes
Land Disputes
Contrats

Exclusions

Debt Collection
Defamation
Small claims

First Stop Program

This program is a network of volunteers who represent WAR in their communities. They receive training in gender based violence, rape protocol, and basic counseling skills and act as the eyes, ears, mouths, and hands of WAR. They liaise with WAR as much as possible and refer people in their communities to WAR whenever necessary.

Emergency Shelter

WAR operates a safe house to provide shelter and a place to heal for the victims of gender based violence.