Supporter Spotlight
24th of March, 2016
We need our supporters and we love it when people help us out. Angela Maslin is someone who has been helping us out since 2011.
With her partner, she began donating regularly to Aviva when we were still Christchurch Women's Refuge. “We are comfortably off and we both wanted to give something back to our wider community” says Angela. When choosing where to invest their donations, for Angela it was about “wanting to help women, children and families, and especially people within New Zealand. I’ve always been very supportive of women’s causes because of the way I was brought up – my mum was a strong feminist.”
Family violence isn’t everyone’s favoured cause but Angela could see how insidious and present it really was. “I had a friend who was really, really smart, but was in a horribly abusive relationship. I can see how that dynamic can develop and how complex it is. That’s why this work is really close to my heart. Who’s to say to it won’t happen to someone in my family or someone I know – they might need your services some day.”
Thanks to Angela, and our many other supporters, those services - including No Interest Loans, Specialist Peer Support, education, advocacy, sexual assault support and Aviva’s Shine safe@home service - are here 24-hours a day, at no cost.
Here is how you, and Angela, make a difference when you support Aviva:
- $20 helps provide transport to and from group each week for children
- $30 could buy Worry Dolls for children attending one education group
- $60 could ensure our 24-hour support line is answered during the night
- $70 buys a personal alarm for someone at high risk of repeat or severe violence
- $150 buys morning tea for children’s group for a term
- $500 can provide five weeks of family violence education for men who are overcoming violence
- $1,590 enables a woman to undertake a life-changing 10-week education programme
- $2,000 enables a child to undertake a life-changing 10-week education programme
