Provide 500 Women Globally with Abuse Support

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

We serve American women & children living in foreign countries who are victims of domestic violence & child abuse, via an international toll free crisis line. Crisis line advocates work with victims, empowering them to make the decisions necessary to live a life without violence for themselves & their children while navigating the complicated system that hinders them from fleeing the violence and returning to the USA. We offer counseling, relocation, housing, legal assistance & emergency needs.

Activities

Every year we provide hundreds of battered American women and abused children with the information and services necessary to enable them to live their lives without violence in the foreign country or back in the USA.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $845
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $299,155
Total Funding Goal: $300,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project serves 500 women per year empowering them to find alternatives to a life of violence so their children grow up in violence free homes with their self-esteem in tact with the hope of stopping the cycle of violence in future generations.

Project Message

“Because of you, my son and I are safe and happy back home. There were times when I thought we might not live to see another day. I now believe in guardian angels, because God sent you to me.”
- Anonymous due to confidentiality, Beneficiary

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Paula Lucas,
Founder
3300 NW 185th, # 133
Portland, OR 97229
United States
503 203-1444
Email:

Project Sponsor

John Stupfel

Organization

The American Domestic Violence Crisis Line
3300 NW 185th, # 133
Portland, OR 97229
United States
503 203-1444
http://www.866uswomen.org

Learn more about The American Domestic Violence Crisis Line and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in United States and can also be found under Women and Girls.

For more information about United States, read the Human Development Report on United States or the Wikipedia entry for United States.

Latest Update from the Field

Callers from new countries

By Paula Lucas - Founder & Executive Director, March 19, 2008 05:31 PM

First we would like to thank all of our donors for choosing to support the American Domestic Violence Crisis Line. We have received calls from abused American women in four new countries so far this year, Niger, Czech Republic, El Salvador & Aruba.

We are excited to see our outreach efforts yielding results as we continue to try to reach abused Americans in globally disbursed and geographically isolated communities.

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