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September 4 2008
There are Literacy classes, a library and handicraft courses to help in the re-socialization of released female prisoners
There are Literacy classes, a library and handicraft courses to help in the re-socialization of released female prisoners
By: Wojoud Hasan Mejalli
For The Yemen Times

The Social Care House in Aden has been helping rehabilitate young girls after prison since 2005. Officially known as the Relief Center for Female Ex-Prisoners and Victims of Violence, the shelter is considered to be the first refuge of its kind in the Middle East.



\”Do you have any younger sisters?”” she asked in a low voice. \””Promise me you will look after them. Don't lose them as my older sisters did me.\””

This is how 16 year-old Salwa*