Women’s Aid Armaghdown is part of a worldwide feminist movement which is working towards a better future in which equality of opportunity and real choice is available to all and wherein domestic and sexual violence and abuse is unacceptable. We aim to achieve this through the following aims:
- To provide temporary refuge for women and their children suffering mental, physical, financial or sexual violence or abuse in their homes.
- To offer support and advice to any woman who asks for it whether or not she is living in a refuge and offer supportive aftercare to women leaving the refuge.
- To encourage women to take control of her own future whether this involves returning home or beginning an independent life.
- To meet the needs of children and young people affected by domestic & sexual violence and abuse.
- To educate and inform the public, the media, the courts and statutory and voluntary agencies, always mindful of the fact that abused women are a direct result of the general position of women in our society.
