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If you're not familiar with 'the Federovits project', it's one we have been supporting for more than two decades and they're still going strong! Ira, who runs the project, beams with a look of love every time we ask how her young people are. “We are all one happy family, who love spending time together, encouraging and teaching each other things - whoever ends up in our family wants to stay there!” she says. The happy family she refers to are adults with learning disabilities

Before coming to the Women's Crisis Centre, battered wife Arina took her son Kostya and ran away from the family home. They began sleeping rough in abandoned houses and then gradually made their way north. Arina's home was in Volgograd in the south of Russia, almost 1800km from the WCC. Such was her desperation to flee from her abusive partner, she was prepared to make the long journey with her youngest son with no assurance of where they could stay on the way. Arina has thre

Meet Aliona, an orphan who was poorly educated and lived in poverty. She fell pregnant but the father didn’t want to know. She then married another man and was soon giving birth to her second child. This relationship was violent, fuelled by his addictions to drugs and alcohol, increased by his anger at the ‘wrong sex’ of Aliona’s second born. A person is more likely to experience domestic violence if... They are pregnant (or have recently given birth), are female aged between

We wrote to you some time ago when Anna fled to the WCC after a beating from her husband. She escaped while heavily pregnant and with two young children in tow. Timur, her oldest, was an extremely frightened little boy as he too had been on the receiving end of his father's fists. You may remember a video she shared with us a couple of months ago where she talks about this WATCH VIDEO. It's stories like Anna's that confirm how valuable it is that we support the Women's Crisis