After I was torn away from my three children, after I was forced again and again to leave shelters because of a violent partner who managed to sabotage each stay and to force me to leave those places I had chosen to call home, that’s when I came to Logifem.
My first impression, there in the vestibule surrounded by my luggage, was one of human warmth and family, an environment that would allow me to open up, in a healthy way. I wasn’t wrong. I received comfort and safety, care to help me rebuild my self-esteem and of course homemade food, served with love, day after day.
In the very beginning, I was suspicious of all the Intervention Workers, of the Cook, of the other residents and of the services offered. I questioned myself a lot about my stay at Logifem and what the future held for me.
With humane support and compassion offered 24 hours a day, Logifem’s team knew how to help me, to show me how to organize my priorities on paper, to identify my needs and the objectives I wanted to achieve at the end of my stay.
I saw a house where I could settle and relax when my body and my conscience could no longer continue. Shoulders on which I could cry when injustice came knocking at my door. Services offered to help me rediscover my femininity (Boutique/Gym). My Intervention Worker was a second brain to help me to think and to articulate my words whenever sadness and depression invaded me
Thank you a thousand times Logifem! You have given me back my life, faith, love for myself and for others. Now I feel ready to give back in turn and to be able to love without forgetting myself.
Logifem resident, 2015