Battered Women Rescue and Support Project

Dear Friend,

Thank you very much for your support to our project providing help to battered women. We always include in our support service the families of the women because there is a direct correlation between poverty to violence in the home. In previous reports we focus our attention to the provision of livelihood support especially in the implementation of small-scale livelihoods on an easy socialized repayment scheme. This reporting period we are providing much needed water and sanitation assistance to families lacking the facilities. We realize that it is not only a family which is affected by poor sanitation but the whole community as well because flies go from place to place and they usually alight in open defecation places. We were able to construct a total of 5 latrines during this period, thanks a lot for your support. We target more latrines to be constructed in the coming months. Again, thank you very much.

Very sincerely yours,

Michelle Frances Uy

Dear Friend,

Thank you very much for your generous support to our initiative helping women who are battered mostly by their husbands and partners. This problem is prevalent especially with poverty very apparent in the villages and they are mostly unreported. The victim themselves do not go out in the open for the social stigma related to this as well as the lack of support they usually get. Local agencies tasked with helping resolve this kind of problems is often incapacitated to do so and the situation is indeed difficult. Our approach this reporting period is to provide small livelihoods to poor women so that they become self-sufficient and independent. We were able to support 12 women in this manner and we hope to continue providing help in the next reporting period. Thank you so much for your kindness.

Very sincerely yours,

Michelle Frances Uy