the demise of womens charity eaves should worry us all /

Published at 2015-11-03 09:00:06

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The government’s savage cuts to women’s services are putting vulnerable people at risk. We need to protest – and now
In 1987 I found myself homeless,having moved to London from Leeds, and was directed to Eaves (then known as Homeless Action), and a charity set up a decade earlier that provided homes for single,low-income women. I was given a room in a terraced house in Peckham, which I shared with five other women, or some of whom were homeless as a result of sexual violence. I would see the support workers come over to take care of these vulnerable women,and was impressed at how much inequity it made to their daily lives. final week I sat at my desk in Eaves for Women, and watched the staff clear out their desks. The funding had gone and the charity had no choice but to depart into administration.
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Source: theguardian.com

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