Sexualised war violence and other forms of violence have life-impacting consequences on a mental, physical, spiritual and social level.
 
During many years of work in regions of war and crisis, medica mondiale, in cooperation with women on the ground, has developed a holistic concept that aims to support women in overcoming their traumatic experiences, to enhance social integration and the active participation by women in processes of social change and also protects them from further violence.
 
medica mondiale offers a wide range of support services: medical treatment and consultation, psycho-social or psychotherapeutic support, vocational training and income-generating activities as well as legal assistance. Individual services and public education and human rights sensitisation work as a coordinated dual strategy with the goal of supporting traumatised women in an optimal way and to enforce their rights. Every project first seeks to secure the material security of its clients – either through medica mondiale itself or by referring them to other aid organisations.  For medica mondiale one of the most urgent tasks in trainings and support networks to enhance the competence of specialists and occupational groups who have to deal with traumatised women and girls in their work – for example midwives, doctors, policemen and lawyers.