Our impact - Stop the violence

Amy

Amy knows all about domestic violence. When she was a child, abuse was always present in one way or another. (MORE>>>)

Jocelyn

The following is a personal story from Garth Juriansz, who lost his daughter Jocelyn to violence. “Jocelyn had something words cannot describe" (MORE>>>)

Laurie

Laurie’s husband used to abuse her with both his fists and his wallet. She felt trapped. If she stayed with him, she was physically abused. But if she left him, she faced raising her children in poverty and a constant struggle to make ends meet. (MORE>>>)

Rose

When Rose left her abusive husband, she knew she might have to raise her sons in poverty, but she also knew that was better than the alternative. “Giving up and returning to a life of abuse would have surely put me in the grave,” she says. (MORE>>>)

Sandra

Before, Sandra says she was “lost in darkness, barely seeing the light of day.” Today, she says, every day is filled with brightness. (MORE>>>)

Shawna

Shawna sat in her car in the deserted parking lot, sobbing. History was repeating itself. Her partner—who had seemed so wonderful when they first met—had just thrown her computer out the window in a drunken rage, then savagely beat her. It the worst and last beating she would endure. (MORE>>>)