One of the cases is a women who is currently helped and supported by the Women's Empowerment Project. She is thirty years old and divorced. She was married when she was twelve years old, against her will, and without any knowledge of marriage. He husband was a drug addict and he beat her severely until she bled, and tortured her with an electricity cord. He divorced her after six months of marriage. She remarried after three months of her divorce and lived with her husband in his family house. Her mother-in-law treated her badly, she forced her to do all the house work, and created troubles between her and her husband. Her mother-in-law also controlled her and her husband's sexual relations. Her husband beat her severely and humiliated her to gain his mother's satisfaction.

This woman has ten children, and she tolerated the violence to stay near her children. In spite of this, her husband divorced her because his mother ordered him. She then came to the WEP, suffering from frustration and despair because she was forced to return to her father's house, and her husband prevented her from seeing her children. Now, she is enrolled in the vocational training course, and the project social worker has visited her father to encourage him how to deal with his daughter, and to solve the communication problems between her and her family. The project lawyer visited her husband, and convinced him to allow her to see her children. She succeeded in this because her father refused to let her take her children to his home because he said they weren't their children. The psychologist followed the psychological problems that she was suffering: 'cyclothymic disorder', depressive eposides, loss of appetite, isolation, thoughts of death, and sometimes 'hypomanic' episodes. She underwent psychotherapy and drug therapy, and now her situation has improved. Her self-esteem has increased and she is interacting with other women. She can visit her children once a week, and she has also learned new skills in order to look for a job.