COVID-19: help women victims of violence

Thanks to the donations that are continuously collected through this platform, we have been able to continue to provide various forms of help and support to women who are in emergency situations. Donations allow us to respond adequately and in real time to the still increasing needs of women as a result of the still current Covid 19 pandemic.

The crisis has highlighted a number of systemic shortcomings. DOMINE provides counseling services, but over the past (2020) Counseling has started to act like a crisis center and this continues to this day. This is also the reason why we launched the initiative to open the first Crisis Center in Split (and in Croatia). In addition, we have expanded the forms of support we offer - financial and material support, 24-hour telephone availability and field visits (mainly to rural areas, areas with bad transport connections, low-income users or users with health conditions).

The money raised through the platform from the beginning of April until today has been used to cover services provided to women who contacted Counseling center, for which the organization did not have the funds. The costs of one part of psychological, psychosocial and legal counseling were covered, for one (1) beneficiary emergency crisis accommodation was paid for 10 days, 3 beneficiaries received direct financial assistance to cover basic living needs.

Finally, after year and a half of the virus pandemic, crisis has not decreased. The need for financial and material assistance remains high, and the funds allocated to civil society organizations for direct work with beneficiaries are insufficient. Nevertheless, we are making every effort to secure funding and continue to help women in need.

* Due to the protection of the rights of our users, we are not able to publish photos that testify to what we have done as part of this project. Feel free to contact us via udrugadomine@gmail.com for more information. Thank you for understanding!

ENGLISH

Thanks to the donations that are continuously collected through this platform, we have been able to continue to provide various forms of help and support to women who are in emergency situations. Donations allow us to respond adequately and in real time to the still increasing needs of women as a result of the still current Covid 19 pandemic.

The crisis has highlighted a number of systemic shortcomings. DOMINE provides counseling services, but over the past (2020) Counseling has started to act like a crisis center and this continues to this day. This is also the reason why we launched the initiative to open the first Crisis Center in Split (and in Croatia). In addition, we have expanded the forms of support we offer - financial and material support, 24-hour telephone availability and field visits (mainly to rural areas, areas with bad transport connections, low-income users or users with health conditions).

The money raised through the platform from the beginning of April until today has been used to cover services provided to women who contacted Counseling center, for which the organization did not have the funds. The costs of one part of psychological, psychosocial and legal counseling were covered, for one (1) beneficiary emergency crisis accommodation was paid for 10 days, 3 beneficiaries received direct financial assistance to cover basic living needs.

Finally, after year and a half of the virus pandemic, crisis has not decreased. The need for financial and material assistance remains high, and the funds allocated to civil society organizations for direct work with beneficiaries are insufficient. Nevertheless, we are making every effort to secure funding and continue to help women in need.

* Due to the protection of the rights of our users, we are not able to publish photos that testify to what we have done as part of this project. Feel free to contact us via udrugadomine@gmail.com for more information. Thank you for understanding!

HRVATSKI/CROATIAN

Zahvaljujuci donjacima koje se kontinuirano prikupljaju preko ove platforme uspjele smo nastaviti pruzati razlicite oblike pomoci podrške zenama koje se nalaze u neizlaznim situacijama.

Donacije nam omogucuju da adekvatno i u stvarnom vremenu odgovorimo na još uvijek povecane potrebe zena do cega je došlo uslijed još uvijek aktualne pandemije Covid 19.

Kriza je ukazala na niz sistemskih nedostataka. DOMINE pruzaju usluge savjetovanja, ali tijekom prošle (2020) Savjetovalište je pocelo djelovati poput kriznog centra i to se produzilo do danas. To je i razlog zašto smo pokrenule inicijativu za otvaranje prvog Kriznog centra u Splitu (i u Hrvatskoj). Osim toga, proširili smo oblike podrške koje nudimo - financijsku i materijalnu potporu, 24-satnu dostupnost telefona i terenske posjete (uglavnom u ruralna podrucja, prometnu povezanost, korisnike s niskim primanjima ili loše zdravstvene korisnike).

Novac koji je preko platforme prikupljen od pocetka travnja do danas se koristio za podmirenje usluga koje su se pruzale korisnicama savjetovališta, a za koje organizacija nije imala sredstava. Podmireni su troškovi jednog dijela psihološkog, psihosocijalnog i pravnog savjetovanja, jednoj korisnici je placen hitan krizni smještaj u trajanju od 10 dana, 3 korisnice su primile direktnu financijsku pomoc za pokrivanje osnovnih zivotnih potreba.

Napokon, intenzitet nakon jedne godine pandemije virusa i krize nije smanjen. Potreba za financijskom i materijalnom pomoci i dalje je velika, a sredstva namijenjena organizacijama civilnog društva za direktan rad s korisnicama su nedostatna kao. Unatoc tome, cinimo sve napore kako bismo osigurali financiranje i nastavljamo pomagati zenama u nevolji.

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