Mission & Vision
WomenAWARE/FemmesAVERTIES is a non-profit, community-based organization whose mission is to support and empower – as well as prevent and strive to end domestic violence against women, youth, and children.
We believe that everyone has a right to live in safety and to have a future without fear!
Webster’s Dictionary defines SAFETY as freedom from danger, injury, or the threat of harm such as a place where one is free of worry from potential harm and it gives as the example of safety — “as safe as you are at home”
For many of the women who reach out to our services safety is neither a word nor a feeling that is familiar to them and yet we continue to meet and work with incredibly resilient, strong and resourceful women – not despite their experiences but because of them!
The issue of domestic violence knows no border, it has no boundary. It is not new.
Our vision is that as women become aware of what is available to them and that they are not alone, a clearer picture of a better life takes shape for them and their children so the picture goes from:
- Silence to Communication
- Despair to Hope
- Isolation to Community & a Support Network
- Fear to courage
- Shame to pride
- Victim to survivor
- Survivor to mentor
