Dear College of William & Mary Chapter,
Thank you for your hard work and commitment to making the SANE training possible in Guatemala! I am very pleased to update you on their exciting plans for this training.
Our Guatemala office will host a number of local forensic experts for five days this fall. A Forensic Nurse Consultant will travel to Guatemala and lead various lectures and practicums, teaching on the following topics and more: medical findings in sexual assault, male sexual assault, investigating a case, identifying injuries using photographs, documentation of sexual crimes, crime lab role and evidence collection.
As you can imagine, this training will be invaluable to the clients we serve and would not be possible without your financial support and prayers. On behalf of the Guatemala office, our Field Director, Pablo Villeda, would like to personally thank you. Click here to download video. Feel free to share this email and video with your Campus Chapter.
Lastly, to have a more specific idea of who this training will benefit, I would like to share Kiara*’s story with you. Click here to download her story. Through this story I hope you are able to see how we believe this training will help obtain justice for more children like Kiara*. The SANE trainings will benefit child victims of sexual assault in Guatemala by enabling Guatemala’s forensic doctors to provide a response to sexual violence that is both sensitive to the victim’s needs and will document the type of evidence necessary to pursue accountability under the law for their perpetrators.
Please feel free to contact me if you need anything at all. Thank you again for making this possible!
Warmest regards,
Alicia
* In order to protect the individuals IJM serves and safeguard ongoing IJM casework, a pseudonym has been used, though the account is real.
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