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Women in Kuwait seek help via hotline

The Listening Center is the only personal help line in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. But even its staff has been surprised by the high demand for its services in a region where people don't usually take their problems to strangers

AP , KUWAIT S

Although employees usually manage to leave work behind at the end of the day, some voices stay etched in their memories, al-Maatouk said.

``I remember the wailing of a woman whose husband had sexually abused their two daughters. She was hysterical,'' al-Maatouk recalled.

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