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FUNDING PLATFORM ONEARMENIA HAS LAUNCHED $21,000 TO THE WOMEN'S SUPPORT CENTER IN YEREVAN
11:50, 19 March, 2013
YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS: Non-profit funding platform ONEArmenia
has announced a new $21,000 campaign to close the 2013-2014 budget
gap of a safe house run by the Women's Support Center in Yerevan,
reports Armenpress referring to English language Asbarez.
"We started the safe house in 2012 because the need was so great,"
said Women's Support Center director Maro Matosian. "Every time we
would refer someone to the existing shelter, they were turned away
because there was no space."
The WSC's safe house is only one of two such spaces currently operating
in Armenia. Because of the potential for pursuit by perpetrators, the
safe house's precise location is kept confidential and is not revealed
to the pubic. It has the capacity to house and nurture up to 5 women
and their children at any given time, with an average yearly impact
on 30 women and about 60 children. In addition to providing a safe
space where women can seek solace and reprieve from their harrowing
experiences, the safe house employs social workers, legal counselors
and psychologists who work with the women to slowly build up a sense
of independence, potential and eventual self-actualization. By the
end of a maximum 60-day stay at the safe house, women are prepared
to begin new lives with newfound self-reliance and confidence.
According to a study conducted by Amnesty International, only 29%
Armenian women to be exact-of these women seek out help, only to return
later-at a rate of 88%-to the very homes and families that abused them.
From: A. Papazian
11:50, 19 March, 2013
YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS: Non-profit funding platform ONEArmenia
has announced a new $21,000 campaign to close the 2013-2014 budget
gap of a safe house run by the Women's Support Center in Yerevan,
reports Armenpress referring to English language Asbarez.
"We started the safe house in 2012 because the need was so great,"
said Women's Support Center director Maro Matosian. "Every time we
would refer someone to the existing shelter, they were turned away
because there was no space."
The WSC's safe house is only one of two such spaces currently operating
in Armenia. Because of the potential for pursuit by perpetrators, the
safe house's precise location is kept confidential and is not revealed
to the pubic. It has the capacity to house and nurture up to 5 women
and their children at any given time, with an average yearly impact
on 30 women and about 60 children. In addition to providing a safe
space where women can seek solace and reprieve from their harrowing
experiences, the safe house employs social workers, legal counselors
and psychologists who work with the women to slowly build up a sense
of independence, potential and eventual self-actualization. By the
end of a maximum 60-day stay at the safe house, women are prepared
to begin new lives with newfound self-reliance and confidence.
According to a study conducted by Amnesty International, only 29%
Armenian women to be exact-of these women seek out help, only to return
later-at a rate of 88%-to the very homes and families that abused them.
From: A. Papazian