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10 April 2025

Create your own safety plan. Start your journey to a safer place.

A safety plan is a personalised, practical strategy designed to improve your safety while experiencing abuse, to help you prepare for leaving an abusive situation, or to support you after you have left. This plan contains key information tailored to your unique circumstances and will help you prepare for and respond to different scenarios. It … Continued
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29 April 2024

Have you also experienced Monica’s nightmare? You can change this!

https://youtu.be/5kf7JFs_SwM Monika is one of many women who have lived in silence, fear, and a sense of powerlessness for years. Unfortunately, her story is still a reality for hundreds of Polish women living in the UK. But you don’t have to be alone. As Opoka, we have been helping women like Monika for years – … Continued
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2 March 2021

Domestic violence affecting so many Polish women in the UK. Find help here!

Women often don’t even realise—let alone acknowledge—that what they are experiencing in a relationship or marriage is violence. They don’t understand or accept the concept and identity of abuse, that behaviours such as control, manipulation, intimidation, blackmail, coercion, and pressure from a partner or husband are forms of abuse too,” says Aneta Mackell. “We keep … Continued
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