By Amy Slater Ovadia | Resource Development Manager
Women's Spirit helps women break the cycle of violence through the development of financial independence.
Over 200,000 women in Israel suffer from physical, psychological, sexual and/or economic violence. Violence and its consequences cause distress, social isolation, low self-esteem, and hamper women's ability to develop job skills, integrate into the labor market, maintain continuity in workplaces and support themselves and their children.
Women's Spirit established in 2007, assists women victims of violence to develop financial independence.
While many organizations in Israel provide women victims of violence with excellent crisis support, Women's Spirit is the only organization that operates a unique model, which provides women victims of violence with a long term, personally tailored solution, to help them break the cycle of violence and rebuild their lives - by improving their occupational and financial status.
In November 2015 a March was held in Tel Aviv and Haifa to Stop the Violence Against Women .
We collaborated with all organizations that provide general support to women victims of violence: Local authorities' welfare departments; domestic shelters and rape crisis centers. We work with the business sector to create cooperation's and partnerships with business owners and company executives that help dismantle the barriers women victims of violence face in the employment world, through raising awareness and providing accessible work places for women victims of violence.
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