“Before the war, I graduated from high school and a professional training in airline ticketing and reservations. I also had good taste in fashion design and was an excellent seamstress. I worked at a travel agency as a supervisor while attending university, but in my second year I couldnt continue because of the civil war in my country. During the war I was kidnapped and taken very far away by rebels where I spent some years of hardship. I was violently abused all of the time.  I was helpless, lonely and emptied inside. I was always ready to die because of what I was going through. Then one day a miracle happened: I escaped. But the grief, shattered spirit and fear remained inside of me. I was always silent. It was a blessing that one day I participated in counseling sessions at SCA to heal my trauma. I was transformed from being a victim to becoming a more meaningful person” V.G

 
“she guided through the trauma healing and from that healing today I am able to recover, I came to myself, I came to my senses. I really feel good that now I am a human being, and I am safe, I feel fine in my body” – F.D.

“While at the Monrovia Central Prison, an organization by the name of Second Chance visited the prison and we were helped by the means of their training, such as exercises, counseling and lectures. I personally benefited, there were exercises we were introduced to that when you are down or depressed, it helped you lift your spirit. It helped me many days to relax and have a good night rest despite my problems at the prison. It made me at times to even think that there was a second chance in my life. And I will like to encourage them to keep up the good works, because it made people feel important, that whatever problems in their lives is not the end of their lives. May the good God bless their effort and keep them strong”.

Mrs. R., Oct 14, 2010

“With all the trauma I experienced after my life was wasted. In fact you are my mentor, the voice for the voiceless. Anytime I think of Second Chance I see myself transforming from grass to grace. Words cannot express the kind of post trauma treatment you went through with me. I know it was short-termed but the little you gave me is worth. I can’t describe the type of trauma I suffer from birth till I was able to get in contact with you”
- M.M.

“I really wanted to write you in the second week that you left, but I really wanted to see if the transformation that took place my life was something real or magical. I am convinced that it was something real that took place in my life. I want to be grateful to God who directed you in Ghana to the Liberian Refugee. I am grateful that I ever met you. There’s no more nightmares, bad dreams running every night for safety. I can see myself as somebody still useful in life. I believed that there is hope for the future me. I know that with your traumatic therapy treatment you can heal anybody who have been living with trauma for twenty to fifty years. I am saying this because of what took place in my life. I have been living with trauma for the past sixteen years and for you to make me overcome my trauma in less than a month it is something I can’t still believe. However, I am bit sad because there are many Liberians who are going back home still traumatized. UNHCR have been doing well for REFUGEE all over the world but we need more trauma counselors to help these people going back home. Many Liberians do not want to go back home but they do not have any choice. For now there is no more resettlement program for Liberians refugee by UNHCR, therefore they have go back home. It is my prayer that you will be able to get help from other people”. – S.M.

“We have really seen a change and we know that there’s a hope through psychology today, that we can forget about the past and even live a better life”
- M.K.

“I’ve been suffering from trauma for the past 14-15 years, without knowing i had a disorder. I got more than one hundred war scenes that I saw that I did not know psychologically would affect me. I just got to know it through my treatment. I feel sick if I think about what a lot of my brothers and sisters are going through right now because of the lack of knowledge”
-K.M