Local Voices
The Retreat’s Wish List PROJECT Unites Community
East Hampton, NY (March 17, 2014) – The Retreat has received an outpouring of support from local residents, schools, and businesses in the East End through their Wish List: All it Takes is a Box Project. The Retreat is the only nonprofit in the East End providing safe shelter and support to victims of domestic violence. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.
Most of the women we serve through our shelter come with only the clothes on their back. The Wish List Project helps fill gaps of personal items and supply resources needed by clients who would not be able to afford them otherwise. According to Minerva Perez, Shelter Director, “These items have enabled the shelter to meet the very basic needs that our adult and child clients have. The item itself is important but so is the message that you are surrounded by a community that cares. We always impart that message to our clients.”
The following list represents just a few of the groups that most recently endorsed and participated in the program:
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Project F.I.T.
Shelter Island Yoga & Fitness
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Shelter Island Schools
Capital One Bank
Shelter Island Town Hall
Bridgehampton National Bank
Jernick
Our Lady of The Hamptons Regional Catholic School
The Ross Lower School
East Hampton Union Free School District Central Office Staff
For more information on The Retreat and the Wish List Project, please visit The Retreat’s website at www.theretreatinc.org or contact Hope Kramer, Director of Philanthropy at hkramer@theretreatinc.org.
About The Retreat
For over 26 years, The Retreat has been providing domestic violence services and education to families and communities. Programs include a residential shelter for women and children, a 24-hour domestic violence hotline, individual and group counseling, legal advocacy for all victims of domestic violence and dating violence, programs to engage troubled fathers and other men who may be at-risk of committing family violence, and an in-school violence prevention education program taught in local area schools. All services are provided free of charge.
contact: Hope Kramer, hkramer@theretreatinc.org, 631-329-4398
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