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DRAFT: Our idea for the action plan is to talk the class about how in some cases domestic violence is so bad that women and children have to live in a safe house. A safe house is where women and children can go to be safe if their home is not. Our idea was to tell the class how they need food and coats and how people could do a coat drive. Reed and I were also thinking of doing our own coat drive at Paideia.

Ben: Final Action Plan Presentation Shalom Bayit is a Jewish organization that helps with domestic abuse located in Atlanta, Georgia. This organization is very important to the Atlanta community, because it contains a safe house something that many other organizations don't have. A safe house is a place in this case where women and children can when they don't feel safe at home with their spouses. At this safe house it provides the women and children with food, toothbrushes, tooth paste, coats for the winter, etc. In order for them to be able to give these people those supplies people have coat drives and other drives for them. By talking to Shalom Bayit officials I have learned that having these drives is one of the best things you can do to help, because like the lady I talked to said "you can't stop domestic violence, but you can help when it does happen."

Reed: Final Action Plan Presentation There are many projects one can do to help support victims of domestic abuse. One such project is to spend some free time in hospitals to comfort seriously affected victims. These women and children really need companionship while they recover. Just spending one hour a week getting to know these people can help them feel like they are not alone in this. They would love to have to have a weekly friend to talk to. When I was on the phone with the women at Shalom Bayit I learned that the little things you can do are sometimes the best. Instead of giving a few hundred dollars in donations to Shalom Bayit, you can spend a few hours a week aat a hosptital just talking and interacting with the domestic abuse victims. Before this project I would never have thought that the latter would be prefered, but thanks to the experienced volunteers at Shalom Bayit, I now know that more expensive isn't always better. I think the best way that all of you can do to help support these victims is to think of creative ways to make these women feel like they have a companion. Like visiting the Shalom Bayit center or visiting recovering victims. That is the best way to help.