“THE VOICE of LOVE”
I choose, with consciousness and care, and authentic affection for fellow survivors, to write and speak in the voice of love.
This expression, “the voice of love,” is deeply anchored in my heart. The only nonprofit charity that I ever founded and led was named “The Voice of Love.” A project about how to interpret for refugees with histories of torture and war trauma, it became a project in 2009 and a nonprofit (registered charity) from 2011 to 2015.
From across the U.S., more than a hundred volunteers develoedp training and resources on how to interpret for survivors of torture, war trauma, and sexual violence.
These volunteers included national experts in torture treatment programs, therapists, interpreters, social workers, refugees, interpreter trainers, university and college professors, interpreting experts, curriculum developers, a PhD medical anthropologist, and many more. They gave themselves unstintingly to the project.
The Only Way Out was inspired by The Voice of Love Project. The new project is broader. It addresses trauma survivors and is concerned with all forms of deep or intense trauma.
But at their heart, both projects focus on the urgent need of survivors of extreme trauma to reclaim agency, voice and the human capacity for joy.