I think this is one of our finest projects. Although it is quite small in terms of the number of women and their children and families who are involved, we've been able to measure the impact. As social scientists, we wanted to do this over time, longitudinally, whereby the young girls are accepting their children, and their families are accepting these girls and their children back into the fold; I think this is very unusual. My experience working in development humanitarian efforts, especially in the health sector, has not necessarily focused in this way through the responses in their sexual violence programs. I think this is a prime example of where we need to scale up this kind of response, and where perhaps other programs could be modified as well.
I think when you focus your response on the young mothers and their children together with their families, you see changes very quickly. As I said, we saw them in the first four months, whereby their parents were accepting them, as well as feeling empowered that these girls could go back to school. Often they were taking care of their grandchildren and accepting them back into the family. So yes, there's hope.