Observed arrival · 2026-10-30
Three Years at Mehriban
Jamal Naghizade’s first-person account of three years volunteering at an Azerbaijani shelter for women and children who have survived domestic violence.
- For
- Readers curious about shelter volunteering and violence prevention
- Worth noticing
- The author distinguishes his volunteer role from counselling and describes checking whether crisis information would stay clear to someone reading in a crisis.
Field notes
The account breaks the work into five stages, including reviewing information about psychological support, legal consultation, and emergency contacts for clarity in a crisis. It describes prevention materials about personal boundaries, respectful relationships, and coercive behaviour, while explicitly distinguishing the author's volunteer role from counselling. The page also explains its privacy choices: children's faces are blurred, women are shown from behind, and the shelter's address and street are omitted.
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