The Current23:12Mental health help needed for girls kidnapped by Boko Haram
The struggle for abducted Nigerian women and girls doesn’t end when they escape, says Dr. Fatima Akilu. The trauma scars them, and she says it’s important they receive the mental health supports they desperately need.
“They come back to a system where we’re only beginning to really understand the effects of trauma. And it’s also in a country where we don’t really have very many practitioners that work in mental health,” Akilu, executive director of the Neem Foundation in Nigeria, told Matt Galloway on The Current.
“One of the major
