Selam (name changed) holds a message in Tigrinya during an exercise at the safe house. Her note says, in English, “relief”. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Paula Seijo
Tigray, Ethiopia – “I was running from place to place without food or shelter. I was in fear all the time… There was no safe place for me until I got to the safe house,” 22-year-old Selam* recounted to UNFPA.
Selam was in an extremely delicate physical and psychosocial state when she arrived. She had been displaced by conflict that continues to rage in parts of the region, and had repeatedly faced harrowing levels of sexual violence.