In response to reports of increasing incidents of domestic violence during the restrictions, Dublin City Volunteer Centre has teamed up with Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Safe Ireland and other volunteer centres around Ireland to create CRiTiCALL – an initiative to support people emerging from domestic violence during the Covid-19 pandemic.
CRiTiCALL aims to provide support to help people in their journey to safety by offering practical resources along with comfort and encouragement from within the community including:
- Donations – purchasing much-needed items and dropping them off in Dublin 8
- Volunteer your home – volunteer a holiday home or second property as a safe haven
- Letters of courage and hope to those emerging from domestic abuse
“Many refuges are at full capacity. We want to ensure that when people are ready to make the courageous step to leave an abusive situation that we have every resource to hand to support them in their recovery” says Kelley Bermingham, Community Officer, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
Dublin City Volunteer Centre Manager, Edwina Dewart, says “Covid-19 has proven how volunteers are prepared to go above and beyond for those who need it most. We are delighted to be a core part of this wonderful, needed initiative, and will work with our partners, now and into the future, on how we all creatively continue to provide practical supports around domestic violence.”
CRiTiCALL organisations: Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Safe Ireland, Dublin City Volunteer Centre, Dún Laoghaire Rathdown Volunteer Centre, Fingal Volunteer Centre, South Dublin County Volunteer Centre and Wicklow Volunteer Centre.
Find out how you can get involved in CRiTiCALL HERE