Women Are Dreamers Too Inc.
WADT Inc.- Fulton Micro Enterprise Council is a 501 (c) 3 charitable organization, helping victims of Domestic Violence transcend poverty through micro-enterprise training.
WADT Inc. realizes that in addition to the risks and obstacles faced by all poor people, poor battered women face an additional batterer-generated risks, of abject poverty and homelessness. We further realize that the children (innocent by-standers) also suffer similar fate.
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Our mission is therefore to break the vicious cycle of poverty through micro-enterprise technical training in order to foster economic self-sufficiency, through self-determination which we hope will generate a multiplier effect and foster sustainable economic growth in their various communities.
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Our long-term economic solutions are aligned with programs that help survivors make permanent life changes. Women and children are enabled to transition into survivors who break the intergenerational abuse cycle. Our economic solutions provide new, all-encompassing services customized to meet the unique needs of each victim, women and children.
We address Domestic violence crisis by providing a unique, long-term, comprehensive solution that goes beyond emergency services. WaDt is a collaboration of several non-profit domestic violence and housing service agencies.
It is our sincere belief that through the creation of micro-entrepreneurs WADT will help foster sustainable economic independence among our candidates in order to move them towards self-determination. |
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"Life in a shelter for abused women is hard to
explain.
The broken lives are scattered all around you in the shape of the other
women and children that are staying in the same safe house as you are. It is
somewhat like being in a college dormitory. Except nobody is laughing or
smiling. Everybody is trying to piece back together whatever they can salvage
out of the wreckage of the marriages or relationships they are leaving.
The
children have other children to play with that have gone through similar
situations which is somehow comforting to them I believe.
To know it is not just
them that are going through this hell."- CH
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How Do I Know If I'm a Battered Woman?
Domestic violence is defined as abuse committed against an adult or fully emancipated minor who is a spouse, former spouse, cohabitant, former cohabitant, or a person with whom the perpetrator has had a child, a dating or an engagement relationship.
Contrary to what many people think, domestic violence is not rare.
In fact, battering is the major cause of serious injury to women in America, more than auto accidents, muggings and rapes combined.
Several kinds of abuse can constitute battering in relationships, and each kind can take many different forms. Our
society is so tolerant of abusive behavior that we often do not even recognize some behavior as abusive. Some of the kinds of battering include:
Emotional Abuse:
Name calling? Insulting? Humiliation? Criticizing? Blaming? Accusing? Questioning your sanity? Making fun of you? Intense jealousy? Destroying property? Threatening? Retaliation? Not permitting you to make any important decisions? Forcing you to do something against your will? Threatening your pets? Not permitting you to have contact with friends or family? Not letting you leave the house? Not letting you work or go to school? Not letting you drive the car? Monitoring your movements? Threatening to kidnap the children if you ever leave? Threatening self-abuse or suicide if you dont do what (s)he wants? Saying that you deserve any abuse you are given.
Sexual Abuse: Unwanted touching? Withholding sex or demanding frequent sex? Name-calling of sexual epithets such as "whore," "slut," "frigid," etc.? Incest? Obvious promiscuity? Uncomfortable sex? Forceful sex? Sex after beatings? Sex with weapons? Marital rape.
Economic Abuse: Refusing to work or to be responsible for financial affairs? Not allowing you to know about family finances? Making you ask for money? Keeping you in poverty? Not allowing you to have your own checkbook? Not paying alimony or child support when able.
Physical Abuse: Pushing? Pinching? Slapping? Backing you into a corner? Pinning you down? Pulling your hair? Throwing objects? Choking? Shaking you? Biting? Holding you captive? Preventing you from eating or sleeping? Breaking down a door to get to you? Locking you out of the house? Forcing your vehicle off the road? Abandoning you in dangerous places? Beating? Kicking? Keeping you from getting medical care? Spitting on you? Breaking bones? Using a knife, gun, or other weapon against you? Driving at unsafe speeds to intimidate you.
Battering results in hurt, anger, fear, and degradation. All batterers abuse their victims in order to gain control of them. Abuse intimidates the victimized partner, damages both self-confidence and ones ability to evaluate ones situation. Abuse inhibits the victim from taking action to protect oneself. |
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We are currently collecting back packs, canned goods, school supplies and used clothing for Back to School in Collaboration with Trane our Partner
Download
Backpack flyer,
Elementary school Supply List and
Middle School Supply list
Trane Locations for drop off throughout The State of Georgia on The Flyer
If you wish to make Monetary Donations to the backpack Trane 2009 please use Google Checkout and State as such at Checkout
All Donations are tax deductible, and we appreciate your support. |
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