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Our Plan of Action
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We plan to build a centre for wellness and rejuvenation where people can come to find and recreate themselves. Our newly custom designed sustainable complex will serve as a wellness village, providing shelter and sanctuary for victims feeling violence, abuse or personal danger. The centre will have a range of practical solutions ranging from therapy, counselling, wellness courses and other activities to help an individual facing dire circumstances.
​There will also be facilities available for hospitality, business functions, events and retreat centre.
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Volunteer ethos
Our service motto is to improve ourselves by making a difference to others. All life is interconnected, therefore by helping those in need we ultimately save ourselves.
​We believe in promoting a better future for all despite personal challenges and life circumstances. Each of our volunteers have trained and worked together with HL for years and have also survived and overcome extraordinary personal challenge and trauma to shine their light. They now work with the project to help others in our International Village.
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From Victim to Survivor
​What victims need first above all else is understanding and safety. They need to feel heard and secure. It is undeniable that the worst experience is when you feel all alone with no one to turn to. Not knowing who to trust or to open to. Most victims running from toxic relationships, abusers or fleeing disaster regions often feel vulnerable, most lonely and lost with the weight of the world on their shoulders, afraid for their lives and their children’s safety. It is far worse when victims feel persecuted or interrogated by authorities, family members or colleagues who refuse to believe them.
​HuffPost article reported on March 2021 that victims fleeing domestic abuse face unexpected barriers when seeking help. They are left without anyone to turn to. They are almost routinely turned away by so-called “support services” and any government body puts them through a long and painful bureaucracy that fails to do anything helpful and often drives them to suicide. Especially in the pandemic it was common to see mental health and suicide rates soar due to being forced into abusive lockdowns which was their worst nightmare.
​There is no point in trying to advice or counsel or coach someone who faces immediate, imminent danger. The first priority must be to help the victim escape. More importantly trauma from abuse lasts much longer and perhaps a lifetime in some cases. The internal effect of trauma must be addressed in order to make a permanent difference to someone’s life. This is where our project seeks to make the biggest difference.
“Have a terrifying struggle facing you. You’re not alone, and you will make it and have a story to tell”!
"Change in life comes when you choose to change it. Change comes from within. Chance your core and you will change your life!"
Baroness Lidia Antunes
Our method
Every day someone, somewhere is living in fear, facing abuse or running from trauma. Often alone and abandoned, with nobody to turn to, nowhere to run or hide. Most often individuals carry this memory of deep rooted trauma into their lives, work and future relationships into an ever repeated pattern. The situation, environment and their response to the memory leads them recreate and continue the cycle of abuse and attract the same set of circumstances until this pattern is broken. This is what we aim to achieve and the work done by Baroness Lidia and her team has spent years doing this.
How do we do this?
As Buddha once said “a vessel is filled one drop at a time”. We start by building a centre for wellness in the middle of a lush, vibrant retreat where people can reconnect with themselves and the world around them. A sanctuary where individuals fleeing trauma, or abuse can find safety and peace. A shelter for victims of violence. It may also provide facilities as a business centre, holiday resort, wedding venue or other hospitality provider. But above all else it will be a safe-haven for victims fleeing trauma or abuse. The LFP International Village would be a centre for well-being where people find peace and rejuvenate the mind, body and spirit.
This model can be replicated across the world.
Get Involved
- Sponsor us and the causes we support
- Support and deliver one of our courses in your local area
- Collaborate with us (for organisations)
- Attend or host a fundraiser
- Plan or organise an event for us
- Become a volunteer
- Train with us and become an accredited fellow
Donate
Help make our vision a reality. Assist us in our plan by sponsoring us or supporting our activities.
Social Fundraising Events
There are numerous activities we support which involve charitable causes. Baroness Lidia and her team organise celebrity fundraising dinner galas, social events, business conferences and themed parties with various performances.
Previous events include the Latin Extravaganza Party and the Venetian Masquerade Ball at the Archangel Bar in Kensington, and Brazilian Themed Carnival charity fundraiser at Smiths Bar in Paddington.
These events have raised much-needed funds for charities such as the Smile Foundation, also LFP to fund our new health and community centre, and the National Association for People Abused in Childhood.
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Sponsor a Child
There are thousands of children, around the globe, who go without the basic necessities in life, which nurture and aide their development. The Lidia Antunes Project supports many children globally, we are able, to do so, due to the generous donations received from many of our volunteers, donors, and supporters. If you feel you would like to make a difference in a child’s life, please click here and select the amount which you would like to commit to a monthly basis. Thank you for your generosity and for wanting to make a much-needed difference, by giving a child a much brighter and happier future.
Sponsor a Family
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Family is one of the most important things in life. At the Lidia Antunes Project, our ethos is to keep a family together, especially if they have faced any number of challenges, which could tear them apart. By giving them the means for life, by way of support we can facilitate this process, by putting in place the right services. If you feel, you would like to make a difference and commit to a regular monthly donation, please click here. Thank you for your generosity and understanding the need and value of family.
Sponsor a School
Education is a basic human need without which life in the 21 century would be difficult. To educate a child would make a huge difference and this is where we can make the greatest contribution. Our project helps provide the means for children to have the education that they truly deserve in a safe balanced and harmonious environment. We plan to raise funds that can help rebuild schools in troubled regions and sponsor schools, teachers and educators making a difference across the world.
Corporate Support
We are keen to build relations and work closely with businesses and other organisations in London and across the globe. Lidia Antunes Project welcomes joint venture collaborations with other organisations and is looking to work with those who share a similar vision. Help us make this vision a reality with your corporate support or sponsorship.