Our Aims
We work towards:
- Empowerment and education, prevention and lasting change
- Alleviating the suffering of Muslim women with all kinds of domestic abuse, and support them to rebuild their lives
- Encouraging women to register their marriage
- Encouraging mosques and imams to carry out civil as well as religious marriages
Individual Support
- To provide women with awareness of their rights in Islam
- To provide emotional support through an all-women caseworker panel
- To provide help and support to women suffering domestic abuse
- To provide non-judgemental and gender-specific guidance
- To provide women with signposting to legal advice, training and employment opportunities, and knowledge of human rights
- To provide help and support to women to make informed life decisions
- To provide encouragement and advice to women on the importance of registering their Islamic marriage
- To provide support to women on healthy well being, both mentally and physically
Awareness campaign
- To provide empowerment workshops for women from an Islamic perspective
- To represent MWAC in seminars with other organisation
- To work with professionals including refuges, law centres and Job Centres