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Diaspora Intervention Network of Awareness and Healing

Healing is not aluxury. It is abirthright.

DINAH Mission walks with women and girls across Black communities — through awareness, through recovery, through the long work of becoming whole again.

Who we are

A network built for the women the world keeps asking to be strong.

Established in 2020 by Ohemaa Adom K, DINAH Mission is a registered charity dedicated to awareness and healing for women and girls across Black communities in the diaspora.

We work where trauma, sexual abuse and silence intersect — and we respond with safe spaces, honest education, community care and holistic well-being. Nothing we do asks a woman to perform her recovery. We simply make room for it.

What we stand for

Three commitments that hold everything else up.

01

Empowerment

Restoring the authority a woman holds over her own life.

We create the conditions for women and girls to lead: mentorship, skill-building, leadership circles and honest conversation. Empowerment here is not a slogan — it is practice, repeated until it becomes identity.

02

Awareness

Naming what has too often been kept silent.

We speak plainly about sexual abuse, trauma, and the harm that silence protects. Through education, community forums and culturally grounded outreach, we give families and communities language, information and options.

03

Healing

Making room for recovery that is slow, safe and whole.

Healing is emotional, physical, spiritual and communal. Our safe spaces, art-based work and holistic well-being programming let survivors move at their own pace, surrounded by people who will not rush them.

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Why this work matters

Silence has been the loudest thing in too many homes.

Abuse thrives where there is no language for it, no safe person to tell, and no community willing to listen without judgement. For women and girls in Black communities, that silence is often layered with stigma, migration, faith and family expectation.

DINAH Mission responds by building the missing pieces: safe spaces that hold, awareness that educates, and recovery that respects dignity at every step.

Held monthly

Safe spaces

Diaspora-wide

Community

Registered

Charity

Woman painting during a Healing Through Art workshop

Current highlight

Healing Through Art

When words are still out of reach, colour speaks first. Our trauma-informed art sessions give women a way to externalize what they have carried in silence — guided, unhurried, and surrounded by people who understand.

News & events

Latest from the mission

EventsEvent

Women Empowered Through Awareness & Healing

Our flagship Women's Month gathering brings survivors, advocates and allies into one room for a day of truth-telling, workshops and restoration.

10:00 – 16:00Montréal, Québec
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Programs

Healing Through Art

When words are still out of reach, colour speaks first. Inside our art-based healing sessions for women carrying trauma.

4 min read
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Community

Rebuilding Together

Recovery is rarely a solo act. How our community partners are helping women rebuild housing, confidence and routine.

3 min read
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  • Established 2020Serving the diaspora for six years
  • Registered charity#7463 – 63209 – RR 0001
  • Community-centeredPrograms designed with the women we serve
  • Confidential by defaultTrauma-informed, judgement-free spaces

Get involved

This work belongs to all of us.

Whether you give an hour, a skill, a room, or a donation — you help make healing possible for someone who has been waiting a long time for it.

Find your role

Volunteer

Support circles, events and outreach on the ground.

Partner

Organizations and clinics building referral pathways.

Sponsor

Fund a workshop, a session, or a full program cycle.

Advocate

Carry awareness into your family and community.

Support the mission

Your gift becomes a safe room, a facilitator, a first conversation.

Every contribution goes directly into programming for women and girls. Registered charity #7463 – 63209 – RR 0001.