Houston - Women shelters
Star of Hope Mission
6897 Ardmore
Houston
USA
Tel: + 1 713 748-0700
website: www.sohmission.org
Women and Family Emergency Shelter
419 Dowling
Houston
Texas
USA
Tel: + 1 713 222 2220
website: www.sohmission.org
This is a Christian organization providing shelter, transitional living and rehabilitation programs for the homeless and people who find themselves in difficult circumstances. Here we have mentioned solely the women’s shelter, the Star of Hope also runs other male and family shelters. The website has more details.
It is alleged that there are 10,000 homeless people in Houston in abandoned buildings, shanty-towns and cars. The average age is 9 years.
Could you make a difference by volunteering for a few hours a week ?
Houston Area Women's Center
1010 Waugh Drive
Houston
Texas 77019
USA
Tel: + 1 713 528 6798
website: www.hawc.org
Houston Area Women’s Center (HAWC) is a non-profit organization which has extensive volunteer opportunities to provide shelter and support services to survivors of both domestic and sexual violence.
Always looking for volunteers, HAWC gives opportunities for you to be trained in facilitation, counselling and administration. The organization also seeks to inform children, youth and the community at large of this subject matter, with the aim of prevention and elimination of the ever increasing domestic and sexual violence.
An excellent information package is available from HAWC should you contact them with an interest to provision of volunteer work.
A non-profit organization providing services to the community, including counseling and a shelter for
battered women and their children, a hotline offering counseling and referral services for abused
women, a rape crisis hotline and educational programs. Services available to GLBT victims.
http://www.hawc.org
Don’t forget, if you speak other languages, what an asset you could be to an organisation such as HAWC.
Fort Bend County Women’s Shelter
Richmond
Texas
USA
Tel: + 1 281 342 4357
Another branch of the Women’s Shelters is situated in Richmond, Fort Bend, which may be more convenient to volunteer to if you are living in the South of Houston.
Law Review
From the University of Houston Law Center.
http://www.lawlib.uh.edu/Journals/hlr
Coalition for the Homeless
1021 Main St
Ste 2080
Houston
Texas
USA
Tel: + 1 713 739 7514
AAA Concerned Women's Ctr
8300 Bissonet St
Ste 590
Houston
Texas
USA
Tel: + 1 713 988 2200
Houston Aerea Women's Ctr
1010 Waugh Drive
Houston
Texas
USA
Tel: + 1 713 528 6798
