Shakti - Refuge Appeal Month

Refuges in Aotearoa/New Zealand play an important role in the fight to stop family violence and to protect survivors of family violence. Many women Shakti works with would not be alive today, if they did not have a safe place to stay after deciding to leave abusive relationships or family environments. This decision for many migrant and refugee women can be much harder than the mainstream population as there are often language barriers, stigma and shame, as well as less family and social support after leaving.

Shakti has five refuges nationally, two in Auckland, one in Tauranga, one in Wellington and one in Christchurch. Our Wellington refuge currently receives no government funding. While the other refuges receive some government support, we typically support more women and children than what we are contracted to service. This leaves our refuges stretched for resources.

Shakti Youth is running events and competitions during July to fundraise for our refuges, the details for these are below:

#BreakFree

Shakti Youth t-shirts are available for $30.00 each and the Break Free handbook is available for $40.00 each during the month of July and all the proceeds from the sale of the t-shirts and handbooks will go towards our Refuge Appeal.

They will be available for purchase between on the 25th, 26th and 27th of July at Re O-Week at the University of Auckland where we will be sharing a stall with Campus Feminist Collective! Keep an eye out for us!

#AucklandZineFest2017

Shakti Youth will have a stall at ZineFest on the 30th July at the Auckland Art Gallery and all the proceeds from our zines and posters will go towards Refuge Appeal Month.

July is refuge appeal month. Please give generously to support our five refuges for migrant women, youth and children escaping family violence.