Today, I want to introduce you to the first child we rescued because I want you to see the transformation that takes place when child survivors receive safety, justice, and healing. 

Meet 9-year-old Flora*. Flora is a fun-loving, precocious, and energetic child. She is the ring-leader on the playground and her friends might say she’s just a little bit bossy. You’d never know from meeting her that she’d experienced a brutal attack.

In March 2021, just a few days after publically launching Rescue One More (R1M), we were asked to help Flora. Just 7-years-old at the time, Flora had been found alone and barely conscious in her home after being brutally raped.

She was in bad shape. A neighbor picked her up and carried her down the road until she found a boda boda driver willing to take her to the hospital.

Thankfully, Flora made a full recovery. But the trauma of the event left her with deep emotional wounds. 

I remember meeting Flora just a few weeks later. She was understandably scared, withdrawn, and anxious. 

Through our partners at Mercy Child Care and the newly forming Community Action Team in her community, we were able to launch a search for the perpetrator, facilitate trauma therapy, do family tracing, and eventually resettle Flora into a safe and loving home.

Our team has continued providing Flora with counseling and her family with the psychosocial suupport they need to recover emotionally and ensure their home is a safe and child-friendly environment for Flora. 

Today, Flora is thriving in school, at church, and at home. She wants to be a nurse when she grows up!