52 Lives

#473 Families in refuges

Request: Donations / Bedding and PJs from a wishlist / Kind messages

This week, we’d like to help dozens of women and children who have had to leave their homes.

We work with various women's refuges, who provide a safe haven for women and children fleeing domestic violence. Sometimes when they arrive at the refuge, they have nothing with them....not even a pair of pyjamas. The children have often witnessed violence and have had to leave everything behind -  even their school and their friends.

With your help, we want to make sure every woman and child who arrives at the refuges can choose a new pair of pyjamas and duvet cover. We would also like to provide opportunities for some activities and days out for them while they're staying at the refuge - cinema tickets, activity packs etc. These things won’t change their circumstances, but it will hopefully help to make this time a little bit better for them.

*stock image used

What We Need

1. Donations: We will use your donations to provide pyjamas, bedding, activities and days out for the women and children in the refuges we're working with. Please note, the text-to-donate number does change some weeks, so please check it below before donating.

2. Gifts from a wishlist: We've set up a wishlist filled with pyjamas and bedding. To buy something from the list, just add it to your basket and choose the 'gift registry address' when you check out.

3. Kind Messages: To send a kind message to one of the people we're helping, just write a message in the form below (your contact details won't be passed on), or you can post a message to: Life # 473, 52 Lives, PO Box 3154, Reading, RG1 9AT.

What We Did

You donated provided 68 new pairs of pyjamas, 33 new duvet sets, a bundle of teddy bears and around £1000 in donations, which we will use to provide days out and activities for the women and children in the refuges. This photo was taken after the first batch arrived! Thank you so much.