Woven Earth

one of our most recent projects with Auckland Designer, Evie Transforming a garage space at an Auckland Refuge into something magical for the children. You have to see this one! We help change the #thenwhat - one family at a time. This charity is an essential link in the ability of family violence survivors to make a meaningful life for themselves... and their children in the community. Many women have to flee violent homes without money or possessions. Refuges have limited ability to provide these. By liaising with the Refuges to provide practical support for these women and their children in the form of furnishings for their new homes and by providing sporting and other recreational activities for their children, Woven Earth can support mothers in their decision to leave violent partners and help integrate them and their children into a new and non-violent community. (Gail Ratcliffe is a Clinical psychologist who has worked in the areas of practice, university teaching, research and policy in New Zealand and the United States. She has been contracted as expert witness in the Courts in cases of family violence, presented evidence to Parliamentary committees considering bills on family violence, presented training seminars for Family Court Judges and psychologists on the effects of family violence and published articles in psychological and legal journals and textbooks on the impacts of violence and abuse.) We work with the New Zealand Police, Victim Support, Shine and Refuges to help family violence survivors rebuild their lives by furnishing their houses with love and dignity to create a home for them to start the next chapter of their lives. Once people secure a place to live they need to then fill that house with furnishings that enable them and their children to live a dignified life where their basic needs are met.Read More