Home for Domestic Violence Victims – Shelter Home

Govt. of Kerala has started Kollam District Women’s Shelter Home in Gandhibhavan in the year 2015 in accordance with the Protection of women from Domestic Violence Act -2005. This is the first Shelter Home of this type in India. This is a project to shelter the women who are the victim of  domestic violence, physical or mental or sexual or economical or others. The Shelter Home provides counselling, food, medicine, cloth, medical treatment, free legal aid and vocational trainings to domestic violence victims. It is   a temporary shelter. It also providing education to children of victims and referring the inmates for job by providing vocational and skill development training. The shelter home is working to re-unite the families by solving their problems through counselling which will help them to lead happy married life. The number of beneficiaries per year is above 150