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Women are calling us all hours of the day and night and thanks to you we are there on the other end of the line. 

Your donation can keep our National Helpline open 24/7 so we can listen, believe and support women experiencing domestic violence.

Women like Clare*. Clare was 17 when she met her ex-partner, who was 21. He was attentive and nice to her at the beginning. He told her she was good-looking and made her feel “wanted and special”. When they moved in together, things changed. He began telling her what to wear and undermining her relationships with friends and family.

They had a daughter together.

“As the relationship continued, I knew that it wasn’t healthy, but I never considered it abusive until he began inflicting physical harm on me,”

Clare says. He assaulted her for the first time after an argument about his gambling.

“He pinned me into a corner with his hand wrapped around my throat as he snarled abuse at me, threatening to kill me and leave with my daughter,”

“He then started to push and shove me around by the base of my hair.”

She fell to the ground and began kicking him, hoping to make him stop, but he kicked her face with such a force that her head went back and was

“split open in two different places”.

Once he saw blood, he apologised and Clare did not see a doctor. She feared she had provoked him and that their daughter might be taken from her. She never fought back again. She left him after another serious incident, but the relationship continued by phone and he verbally and emotionally abused her.  She says,

“As I slowly progressed in getting away from him, he would often threaten to bury me alive, something I would be terrified of because I’m claustrophobic,”

He told her he would dance all over her face or he’d call her fat, and say nobody else would ever want her. She contacted the Women’s Aid Helpline and with our support eventually got a domestic violence safety order against him in court. We were her lifeline during the most difficult times.

Now 26 years old, Clare is focussing on herself and her daughter and says her daughter better off now that she isn’t witnessing abuse. She is back in college, working part time and rebuilding her life.

Your donation can help us answer calls from women like Clare.

In fact, in 2016 we responded to more calls than ever before despite receiving no increase in Government funding. All because of donations from people like you. Thank you.