Shakti NZ: Shakti Asian Women’s Centre Inc

July 19, 2013

Established in Auckland, provides 24-hour crisis call service (0800 SHAKTI) for ethnic women in domestic violence, drop in centre for women, outreach social work, counselling, legal referral, interpreting, life skills programmes, ACC advocacy, domestic violence intervention training for community, and advocacy. An important initiative of this centre is to train women advocates in the community in the area of gender equity and social change…