Elaine Compagno

Elaine Compagno is a trainer and adviser in the area of intimate partner violence and risk. She is a co-founder of the SOAR service within St Jeanne Antide Foundation, an innovative service offering peer-support to survivors of domestic violence.

Elaine is an accredited trainer in DASH Risk Checklist Training and also designs and delivers training on Domestic Violence from survivors’ perspectives. She is a survivor of domestic violence, an activist and feminist with a background in Youth and Community Studies and Gender and Development.

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Trigger warning: Sexual assault, Rape – #metoomalta When Women for Women admin Francesca Fenech Conti shared a personal disclosure of sexual assault on the Facebook group, little did she know that her splash would start a tsunami of anonymous messages from some of the 35,000 women in the group. Tagging the posts with #metooMalta and #ibelieveyou, anonymous posts on sexual harassment, indecent exposure, sexual assault and rape have been flooding the group every hour, constantly for the last 3 days. In a snowball effect, more and more women are finding the courage to speak out about the sexual abuse they have survived, some women speakingRead More…