You Can Help Keep the Circle Strong
Violence and abuse is endemic and follows girls and women through infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and as elders. Sex selection, infanticide, child prostitution, sexual abuse, date violence and rape, forced marriage, violence and abuse by male partner or husband as an adult or elder.
At Battered Women’s Support Services we exist to end this violence and to provide safe options for women survivors.
We provide real options for women facing theses challenges
We’re on the front line providing crisis support and counselling for women, support groups, providing skill-based training to professionals, delivering violence prevention and awareness workshops to girls and boys, youth, community, and men, while seeking law reform and systemic change.
Over the years thousands of women, children and men have been positively impacted by Battered Women’s Support Services intervention and prevention activities…ending the violence and abuse in their lives.
Every day women who are living in a war zone – their home- are looking for a way to end the abuse and violence. Every day women are reaching out to us to seek safety. Every day women call our crisis lines and access our support groups seeking an answer to the end of the violence in their lives. Every year over 15,000 children witnessing their mothers’ abuse are positively affected by our work with their Mothers. We are supporting the succession of thousands of children to live in domestic peace
It is our work to make public that which happens in private. Our work is to end violence.
Right now! There is a woman who is deciding if she deserves to be safe.
Right now! There is a young woman who is experiencing date rape
Right now! There is a boy who is witnessing his father beat his mother
Right now! There is a man who is remaining silent knowing his friends are using violence against women
Over the next year Battered Women’s Support Services will:
1. Hold over 400 support group sessions
2. Answer 10,800 crisis calls
3. Deliver over 200 training sessions
4. Engage over 1,000 men and boys
5. seek law reform and systemic change
6. change the world
Right now we need you.
You can ensure our phone lines and our doors stay open.
You can ensure we have ready and trained volunteers
You can ensure we have high school prevention materials and youth educators ready
You to ensure that every woman who is considering safety receives safe options
You are part of our circle. You help us keep the circle strong
Make your donation today
Join our circle of strength monthly giving program.
Simply click on the following button to be taken to an official donation page that is Internet-secure and easy to use.
What Survivors of violence are saying about Battered Women’s Support Services:
"Your crisis line saved my life." — KT, July 2010
"I am healing, I feel empowered, I am changing my life." — KH, June 2010
"Recently, I spoke to your new campaign "The Violence Stops Here". I truly believe that men need to step up and advocate, and I am so pleased that the Battered Women’s Support Services is taking this issue into the 21st Century and recognizing that this issue is something that Women and Men need to work together to fix. That it is a men’s issue, and we are allies in this…Thank you." — SK April 2010
Battered Women’s Support Services respects the privacy of all donors by safeguarding personal information and ensuring that donor privacy is protected. Donor information is maintained in a secured database and only authorized personnel have access to this information for our organization’s purposes. BWSS does not rent, sell, give away or trade its donor lists or any information contained on these lists. Donor information is used by BWSS for charitable purposes and will not be used by any entity outside of the organization. Donors can choose to opt-out of receiving future information or services by contacting BWSS by email or phone.
An easy, pre-authorized credit card or bank account deduction
- Flexibility — you can increase, decrease, pause or stop your donation at any time
- A convenient tax receipt reflecting the total of all your donations each year
- Absolute confidentiality — BWSS will not trade, rent or in any way make your name available to other organizations
- Access to our newsletter Women Making Waves that documents the results of your donation
Looking to donate product to our Retail Program?
Read about what we Can and Can not accept!
