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IWA Fundraiser 2024

We are raising funds for "TARA counselling center"

In 2024, the IWA will raise funds for the TARA counselling and therapy center.


Please support our main fundraising event:

IWA Annual English Book Fair

When: Saturday, October 5, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Where: Heilandskirche Pfarrsaal, Kaiser-Josef-Platz 8, 8010 Graz

To donate gently used English books for the sale, please contact the IWA Board.


TARA provides legal advice and emotional support to girls and women in Styria after they have suffered from sexual violence, providing:

  • Crisis support: advice and support for women and girls aged 16 and above who have suffered or fended off sexual violence.

  • Psycho-social counselling: help finding the right options that enable women to cope with this difficult situation.

  • Advice for relatives, companions, involved teachers and social workers.

  • Legal process support: advice and support when filing a complaint with the police and with court proceedings. TARA’s lawyers and counsellors accompany the affected woman or girl in court and during the court case.


Read more about TARA’s work in their English information sheet. TARA provides help for girls and women throughout Styria and is flooded with requests. Our donation will help the team provide even more support in future. We will raise funds at our upcoming English book fair on October 5.


Click here to donate to contribute to our charity fund!

Please donate now!

In 2023, the IWA donated 1,700 EUR to support the haus franzisca women's and children's shelter.

Haus FranzisCa is an emergency shelter and first point of contact for women and their children in need in Graz.

The main goal is to provide women (alone or with children) who are affected by acute homelessness with  accommodation at any time, 7 days a week, throughout the year. The women receive a place to sleep, a supply of food, hygiene items, and access to places to take showers and wash clothes.

 

Each woman (or family) is assigned a caregiver who then works together to set realistic goals for the future to improve the personal situation and, as a result, bring about a lasting change in living conditions.

 

The IWA donation was most gratefully received and will help cover the costs associated with providing women and children in the shelter with support.

Learn more about Haus FranzisCa

IWA Charity Work

The IWA actively raises funds and provides assistance 

throughout the year for the benefit of community 

and charitable organisations that:   

  • ...are primarily based in Austria
  • ...generally benefit women and/or children
  • ...have no or less state funding or support
  • ...provide services that educate and/or empower women
  • ...strengthen the local community
  • ...support the mission of the IWA
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"Thank you very much for thinking of the girls at the Mafalda JA.M Girls' Centre and providing your generous donation!"
― Ursula K.. ―Director of the J.AM Mädchenzentrum (2014)
"Sincere thanks from all of us at Haus Rosalie for the generous donation, which will help us purchase heating oil for the winter and support project costs"!"
― Mathilde U. ―Haus Rosalie - VinziWerke (2020)
"Our warmest thanks to the IWA for their recent visit and donation, which we will use to support our intercultural education programmes!"
― Jutta Z. ―ISOP - INNOVATIVE SOZIALPROJEKTE (2016)