Communities We Serve

We began our work in Africa in 1999, opening a center in Guinea in 2000, where we extended care to refugees fleeing conflict in neighboring countries. That center is now closed, but CVT’s work continues to grow across the continent, with healing initiatives in locations where refugees seek care after trauma and conflict. We also partner with local care providers and organizations to strengthen and help sustain effective healing regionally.

We estimate there are as many as 1.3 million survivors of politically-motivated torture living in the United States. Through our office in Washington D.C., we give voice to survivors purposefully silenced by perpetrators of torture. And we work with torture rehabilitation centers across the United States so that more survivors can receive the healing and care that they need.

Countries in the Middle East are home to hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict and violence in Iraq, Syria and other countries in the Middle East and Africa. The refugees – men, women and children – have experienced tremendous suffering, including brutal torture and other terrible human rights abuses.