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I was so afraid to open up about what happened to me, and I always blamed myself. My anxiety used to take over, and I couldn’t sleep at night. But everything changed when I started attending Group Therapy. I began to feel appreciated and supported. I found sisters in this group with whom I could talk about anything. Through this group, I have found peace, and I am incredibly thankful for it.
Survivor from the Survivors' Support Group
#BreakFree Anti-Violence Campaign
The #BreakFree Pillar prioritises gender-based violence (GBV) support, advocacy, and prevention. It provides trauma-informed care, crisis intervention, safe spaces, and counselling to help survivors heal. Through peer support and emergency response services, young people receive the care they need to rebuild their lives.
Beyond support, the pillar promotes GBV prevention through awareness, education, and community engagement, fostering a zero-tolerance culture. In collaboration with the #BeFree Youth Campus, it also offers mental health and social welfare services, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for all young people to heal and thrive.
What We Provide
Counselling & Guidance
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Career Counselling: Explore career paths, navigate career transitions, and enhance professional development.
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HIV/AIDS Counselling: Provide confidential support, education, and resources related to HIV/AIDS.
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Community Mental Health Support: Foster mental well-being within the community through supportive counselling and resources.
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Educational & Student Support: Assist students with school adjustment, academic development, and career planning.
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Workplace Wellness: Offer counselling for employees regarding job satisfaction, career advancement, and work-life balance.
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Sports Counselling: Enhance individual and team performance through mental wellness and performance coaching.
Mental Health Assessments & Therapy
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Mental Health Assessments: Comprehensive evaluations to understand your mental and emotional well-being.
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Advanced Psychometric Testing: Utilize personality and intelligence assessments for deeper self-understanding.
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Results Interpretation: Provide clear and insightful interpretations of assessment results.
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Psychotherapy: Tailored therapeutic approaches to address psychological challenges, including:
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Brief-term supportive therapy
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Group co-therapy
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Family therapy
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Individual therapy
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Forensic Psychological Evaluations: Conduct evaluative interviews and establish psycho-diagnoses for forensic purposes.
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Mental Health Research: Contribute to the understanding of mental well-being through ethical research practices.
Case management
Case Management is the process of providing protection and support to individual children, youth and their families who are vulnerable to certain risks, directly or through referral services, and following that process through until goals are met.
This process makes it possible for the helping profession to ensure that interventions are tailored to the needs of the individual members. The #BeFree Youth Campus is currently working directly with the youth aged 13-35 years.
Increasing Engagement
#BreakFree has awareness-raising activities that are tailored to provide maximum impact. Our annual engagements are the #BreakFree Mental Health Conversations, Game Changers (Focused on discussing mental health among men) and the National GBV-F Arts Competition during 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence and Femicide.
To deepen the reach and effectiveness of our engagements, #BreakFree integrates both innovative and inclusive approaches to ensure that all demographics are represented and heard. These activities are designed to spark dialogue, provide resources, and empower individuals to take action against violence in their communities.
Capacity Building and Training
Through capacity building and training for frontline service providers, we enhance the skills, knowledge, and resources of individuals who directly interact with the public, enabling them to perform their roles effectively and efficiently. This involves providing targeted learning opportunities and support to strengthen their abilities, improve service delivery, and address the evolving needs of the communities they serve.
The #BreakFree Campaign places significant emphasis on capacity building and training as a key strategy to combat gender-based violence (GBV-F). Over the years, the campaign has equipped more than 1,580 individuals, including police officers, correctional officers, healthcare professionals, social workers, teachers, and community leaders with essential skills and knowledge to address GBV-F effectively. The training sessions cover a wide array of topics such as legislations, stress management, self-care, child protection, and sexual and reproductive health.
By fostering the capacity of frontline service providers and key community stakeholders, the initiative ensures a more robust and survivor-centered response to violence. These interventions not only empower participants to handle cases with greater empathy and professionalism but also promote systemic change by addressing harmful societal norms and enhancing collaboration among service providers.
Court preparation and support services for vulnerable witnesses
A significant part of #BreakFree's work involves supporting survivors of GBV-F by providing psychosocial support, trauma debriefing, building resilience and confidence, court preparation, as well as creating awareness about various mental health challenges.
Additionally, the pillar has been able to provide support persons for vulnerable witnesses when they are giving their testimonies in court and fill a much-needed gap in the interest of justice.
#BreakFree Anti-Violence pledges
The #BreakFree Anti-Violence pledges were launched in 2019. Since then, ONE has actively distributed these pledges through mobilisation and prevention activities. Over the years, #BreakFree has successfully raised awareness of Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBV-F) and inspired 13,264 young people to take a stand against violence by signing the pledge forms.
The work of #BreakFree begins with stories:
#BreakFree Anti-Violence Campaign has reached over 280,000 people through casework, pledge activations, story exchanges, capacity building, and training initiatives, school outreaches, numerous prevention programmes, speaking engagements, information sharing sessions, dialogues, and media publications (including TV, social media and radio).These are our statistics from inception to 2023
#BreakFree By The Numbers
24
PLEDGE ACTIVATIONS
155
INTERVENTIONS
50K
STORIES RELATED TO VIOLENCE
10K
INTERACTIONS
10,000
Interactions
#BreakFree Anti-Violence Campaign has reached over 280,000 people through case work, pledge activations, story exchanges, capacity building and training initiatives, school outreaches, numerous prevention programmes, speaking engagements, information sharing sessions, dialogues and media publications (including TV, social media and radio).
In numbers
Reached 208,000 people through 64,956 interactions.
1 962 stories collected from schools through social workers and teachers at secondary schools and dialogues.
1,000
Stories
#BreakFree has created numerous platforms where GBV-F survivors and perpetrators of violence can share their lived experience and, ultimately, increase their ability to reframe their narratives which, in turn, enables them to engage in behaviour which is not only more pro-social, but also aids in managing challenges.
In numbers
Story Exchanges gave significantly useful statistics, such as:
Addictions: 1,5%
Financial abuse: 5.68%
Substance abuse: 5.68%
Self-directed violence: 3.78%
Bullying: 3.79%
Domestic violence: 25.4%
Sexual violence: 54.1%
#BreakFree continues to encourage survivors, perpetrators and bystanders to break the silence and report acts of violence, through numerous interventions such as pledge activations, community outreaches, story exchanges and school-based interventions.
Our Impact
16 Days of Activism anti-violence pledge campaign video
