$50,000 grant
Women’s refuges have received their first official recognition, a grant of $50,000 from New Zealand lottery profits. Grants of $lOOO to each of five refuges throughout New Zealand have also been made [bv the Mental Health Foundation, which last year set aside $5OOO to promote the aims of the refuge movement. A spokesman for the foundation said that the grant made by the Welfare Services Distribution Committee, the organisation which distributes lottery profits for social welfare, was official recognition of domestic violence as a serious social probHem, and official support for I the idea of women’s refuges. The committee had said I that the grant was to be used for running costs, for setting up new refuges, and [for expenses in co-ordinating the activities of refuges, the spokesman said.
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