In america, one in 4 ladies will expertise home violence throughout their lifetime. The Mary Kay Ash BasisSM just lately awarded grants totaling $100,000 to 4 North Texas home violence shelters: Genesis Ladies’s Shelter & Assist, The Household Place, Denton County Mates of the Household, and Hope’s Door New Starting Middle.
The shelters will every obtain $25,000 to assist put their shoppers on the trail to security, hope, and therapeutic. The Basis’s funds will present continued assist of basic working prices, transitional housing, outreach counseling services, in addition to therapeutic companies, authorized illustration, and different companies.
“In Texas, one in three ladies will expertise home violence and Dallas County has the best variety of feminine home violence deaths within the state of Texas,” mentioned Jessica Bair, Board Member of the Mary Kay Ash Basis and great-granddaughter of Mary Kay Ash. “When my great-grandmother started her Basis greater than 20 years in the past, she envisioned a world the place no girl would really feel unsafe. Our mission to attain that imaginative and prescient begins at house, in North Texas.”
Along with the grants, workers at Mary Kay Inc. assembled 600 Mary Kay “Pink Altering Lives” care kits for donation to the 4 North Texas shelters. The care kits had been packed to have a good time Mary Kay Ash’s Go-Give Spirit on her birthday.
Since 2000, 2,700 organizations advocating for eradicating gender-based violence have acquired grants from the Mary Kay Ash Basis. To assist break the cycle of abuse, the Basis has awarded greater than $56 million to shelters, packages and companies.
