Drumchapel Women's Aid

Constitutional objectives

(a) To provide temporary refuge for women who have suffered mental and/or physical harassment, and their children, on request (b) To encourage these women to determine their own futures and to help them achieve it, whether it involves returning home or starting a new life elsewhere (c) To recognise and care for the emotional and educational needs of the children involved (d) To offer support, advice and help to any women who asks for it, whether or not she is a resident, and also to offer support and after care to any women who have left the refuge, and their children (e) To encourage research into the causes of, and ways of, preventing or relieving the suffering caused by such harassment and to keep such statistics and basic records as will facilitate research to the long term benefit of all battered women (f) To educate and inform the public, the media, the police, the courts, the social services and other authorities, with respect to the battering of women and enlist the support of professional workers to help such women with all aspects of their problem.