WE ARE THE HELEN BAMBER FOUNDATION, A HUMAN RIGHTS CHARITY.

We give survivors of trafficking and torture the strength to move on.

With an all encompassing care for the whole journey, survivors have the dignity, strength and freedom to live their lives to the fullest.

Our care ensures survivors are free, healthy, safe, are protected from re-victimisation, detention and poverty.
Our care guides survivors to recover following their experiences of trafficking and torture.
Our care supports survivors for their whole journey enabling constant and sustained recovery.

It’s about trust. It’s about listening. It’s about love. Ensuring survivors have the strength to fly.

Latest

Asylum accommodation at RAF Wethersfield

Kamena Dorling

There have been several positive developments under the Labour government, including decisions to scrap the Rwanda plan; to not open Scampton; to close Bibby Stockholm; and the decision to progress the asylum claims that had been put on hold. Yet, there is currently no firm plan or timeline for the closure of Wethersfield, despite the Prime Minister committing to do so before the general election and extensive evidence of the harm the site causes to those moved there.

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Statement on the UK’s suspension of asylum decisions for Syrians

Kamena Dorling

Helen Bamber Foundation is extremely concerned that the UK government has decided to suspend decision making in Syrian asylum cases. The government is in no position to assume the safety of individuals in such a volatile and developing situation. Helen Bamber Foundation has supported survivors who were tortured by sectarian militias and who would have feared both Bashar al-Assad and sectarian militias, such as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. The reasons for Syrian nationals claiming asylum in the UK are multi-faceted, complex and in no way limited solely to the atrocities committed by the Assad regime.

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Experiences and impact of moral injury in human trafficking survivors: a qualitative study

Prof Cornelius Katona

Moral injury is understood to be the strong cognitive and emotional response that can occur following events that violate a person’s moral or ethical code. It is characterised by profound feelings of guilt, shame, anger, and disgust and has been conceptualised as a substantial breaking down of an individual’s relationship with self and others. Research in recent years has increasingly highlighted the relationship between exposure to potentially morally injurious events and poor mental health outcomes.

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Our Work

The Helen Bamber Foundation provide detailed and specialised care across six key areas for survivors of trafficking, torture and extreme human cruelty.
Our specialist teams of professionals provide therapy, medical advice, legal protection, housing and welfare, counter trafficking and help with integration into the community. 
This all encompassing care ensures that Survivors heal, reclaim their independence and start living fully.

 

Our Approach

Our all encompassing care will directly or indirectly support survivors of torture, trafficking and extreme human cruelty across the UK and beyond. We do this by working directly with Survivors. By sharing our insight and training with partner organisations to indirectly reach more Survivors and securing policy and practice change to help support every Survivor. 

To put it frankly, we ensure the best level of care for our clients. And we know that the best level of care is always changing, so, we grow alongside our clients, to make sure we maintain excellence. 

Become Part of Our Journey

When you become a donor, you become part of the Helen Bamber Foundation. You become a part of the all encompassing care. You voice, joins with our voices, to become actively part of survivor’s recovery. You join the journey towards freedom, safety and power for all survivors of torture, trafficking and extreme human cruelty. 

You are holding hands with people who are deemed ‘unfixable’ telling them you are listening, you are not a bystander, you are here for the whole journey.

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