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The Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International (TASSC) is a non-governmental, nonprofit organization that works to end the practice of torture internationally, and to support and help the survivors of torture and their families. The organization is an international coalition of torture survivors that works to abolish torture all over the world through programs like Helping Hands and Truth Speakers. TASSC was founded in 1998 by Sister Dianna Ortiz, who herself is a torture survivor. The office of TASSC today is located in Washington D.C.

History
The Torture Abolition and Survivors Support coalition International was founded in 1998 by Sister Dianna Ortiz, a United States Roman Catholic nun of the Ursuline order, who was tortured while serving as a missionary in Guatemala. Her goal was to form an organization that would let torture survivors talk about their experiences themselves, instead of letting others that have never experienced it, talk about it. TASSC is the only organization in the United States that is founded by torture survivors with a goal to educate and aware people of countries around the world in which torture is still practiced today.

Helping Hands Program
Helping Hands is one of TASSC programs to help the survivor victims. It is difficult for a person who has experienced torture to enter back into society. Many survivors isolate themselves from their families and the society. Helping Hands supports survivors in becoming self sufficient as well as helping them trust others. Through this program TASSC helps torture survivors not only by supporting them and their families through that difficult time, but also by providing any legal, psychological and medical needs that come as a result of torture.

Truth Speakers Program
Truth Speakers Program was created by TASSC to educate the public about torture. Survivors of torture that choose to share their stories and experiences with the public, travel across the United States and abroad to educate the public of the still existing problem of torture. TASSC goal is to open the publics eyes to the fact that governments today still practice torture as a mean of getting information.

Communities of Healing Program
Communities of Healing Program provides places for torture survivors to meet and talk about their experiences. This programs is designed to form a safe place where survivors can express their feelings and help each other heal. Communities of Healing Program has ten locations inside of the United States as well as eight in other countries like Argentina, Canada and Mexico. TASSC hopes to one day open a Communities of Healing location in every state in the United States and every country in the world, but right now it does not posses the funds and resources to do so.