Creating a safe space is the most valuable lesson we learned. When they go out, they are judged as young and as immigrant women who came here as refugees. They are being bullied, and they become disconnected because of that. But having that space for themselves, that really opens up their conversations to talk about social issues, and make sure it's not your fault and that it's not only your personal struggle. Opening up the conversation led them to really see themselves as leaders and to challenge those social issues as a group.
So building strong group support and peer mentorship has been successful.