{"id":95972,"date":"2022-11-10T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T10:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.intersos.org\/gender-based-violence-after-years-of-abuse-naomi-seeks-a-future-in-greece\/"},"modified":"2022-11-10T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T10:30:51","slug":"gender-based-violence-after-years-of-abuse-naomi-seeks-a-future-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceful-shtern.46-37-26-27.plesk.page\/en\/gender-based-violence-after-years-of-abuse-naomi-seeks-a-future-in-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender-based violence: after years of abuse, Naomi seeks a future in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>She fled Nigeria and terrible suffering. Our staff met her in Athens, where they help her with food distribution and psychosocial support<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Naomi is sitting on a mattress in her room in Athens. A closet, an armchair, an old mattress on the floor, and her things in some plastic bags. She sprinkles with oil her one-year-old son Lord, who never stands still. She tickles him and smiling says, <em>&#8220;In Nigeria, there was no money to go to school. When I was six years old, my mother, a &#8220;businesswoman,&#8221; sold me to a woman who took me to Ghana. Even there I <strong>could not go to school<\/strong>, I had to take care of her children and work in the house until the evening. <strong>This woman used to beat me<\/strong>; I was very afraid of her.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Naomi is 33 years old and she\u2019s Nigerian. We met her in Athens, during the <strong>food distribution<\/strong> we do as part of the <a href=\"\/?p=17383\">&#8220;Food for All&#8221;<\/a> project together with the Migrant Forum. After years of violence and suffering, <strong>she arrived in Greece<\/strong>, where she is struggling to have a better life for herself and her son. Vulnerable and alone, she recounted how she managed to escape the woman who exploited her when she was about 30 years old.<em> &#8220;I ran away alone, without a penny in my pocket: I went to different countries, but everywhere there were problems with men.&#8221;<\/em> In Iraq, a couple locked her in a room and <strong>forced her into prostitution<\/strong>. <em>&#8220;I needed sex to survive.&#8221;<\/em> On her body, Naomi has signs of abuse and an ugly scar on her chest,<em> &#8220;A man bit me until I bled.&#8221;<\/em> Then <strong>she became pregnant<\/strong> due to a man who would not use a condom. But fortunately, a friend helped her escape. Naomi hoped to arrive in Greece and build a better life, but it didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She lived in the Moria refugee camp in <a href=\"\/?p=14809\">Lesvos<\/a>, where <strong>she gave birth to Lord. <\/strong>When <strong>the camp was closed<\/strong>, they moved to <strong>Eleanos camp<\/strong> in Athens: <em>&#8220;It was terribly hot in the metal cabins and cockroaches were everywhere.&#8221;<\/em> After three months in the Eleanos camp, Naomi <strong>received a residency permit<\/strong>. However, this meant she had to leave the camp and take care of herself.\u00a0<em> &#8220;At the end of June, the police suddenly showed up at the door and threw me and my baby out. I was desperate, I didn&#8217;t know anyone here, I had no money, what was I supposed to do?&#8221;<\/em> She slept in parks and <strong>searched for food<\/strong> in bins until a Ghanaian woman who saw her crying offered her a room to rent. <em>&#8220;I worked hard because I had to put together the rent of 150 euros a month.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A fluorescent yellow jacket hangs on the windowsill to dry. Now <strong>Naomi works at a bus cleaning company<\/strong>: six days a week, from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m., for 600 euros a month. <em>&#8220;Lord stays at the babysitter\u2019s house who costs 150 euros a month,&#8221;<\/em> she says. <em>&#8220;When I come home, I sleep for a few hours and then I fetch Lord. 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