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Refuge

"NAWP will always be in my memories, only good memories not like the bad memories that I once had."

(Testimony from a Refuge Service User)

"It's not easy to get up and leave......I feel that I achieved something coming to the refuge.......it saved my life."

(Testimony from a Refuge Service User)

The Refuge Service provides safe accommodation and housing support services to women and their children fleeing domestic violence. The service currently manages three first-stage and one second-stage refuge. The refuges support women at different phases of their transition towards empowerment and independence, from crisis to independent living. Every woman and child is allocated a Caseworker and Child Support Worker upon arrival, and it is through the staff that women and children receive advice, advocacy, and practical and emotional support, provided for them in their own language.

Women and children arrive at the refuge in a state of turmoil, distress or even trauma, and they have often been emotionally, physically and financially affected by the violence and abuse that they have experienced. The case study outlined below typifies the work done by the Refuge Service.

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