Can you help women stay safe in their homes? Every night close to 50,000 women and their families are homeless, many because of family and domestic violence. YWCA Australia help women and their families find safe, affordable accommodation and, where it’s safe to do so, remain in the home of their choice. YWCA Australia provides over 140,000 nights of safe, secure, affordable accommodation each year and gives thousands of women the personalised support they need to rebuild their lives and feel positive about the future. This International Women’s Day we are raising funds to support more women who are experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity – so we appreciate any support you may be able to provide.
Through our long history of providing housing support and brokerage services we know that receiving additional funding would allow us to support women and their families who are experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity, many because of family and domestic violence. The main objectives of this initiative may include support such as the:
We will be able to provide detailed reporting on the impact of your donation/s at the end of FY22, including an anonymised case study which you may share with your stakeholders. We envisage data will be collected through:
YWCA Australia is an evolving intersectional feminist organisation focused on improving gender equality for young women, women and people of marginalised genders. We have made young women’s leadership and women’s housing our priority. We know that housing is a feminist issue. Young women, women and people of marginalised genders need homes to be safe, happy, healthy and secure. Young women, women and people of marginalised genders disproportionately experience housing stress and instability, challenges accessing safe and affordable housing, the impacts of family and domestic violence, and the risks of homelessness. Our housing services support young women and women to access safe and secure housing and to stay housed with no return to homelessness. Through our programs we provide safe spaces and support structures to help young women develop their leadership capacity, including those with lived experience of housing insecurity and homelessness. Our programs support young women to grow as role models and community leaders and into independent, financially secure women.
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
Australians Investing in Women acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
Also known as Australian Women Donors Network (ABN: 28 141 197 471), Australians Investing in Women is a registered charity endorsed by the Australian Tax Office as a deductible gift recipient (DGR1) under a special listing, all donations over $2 are tax deductible.
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