Emergency Housing

Country	Antigua and Barbuda
Year	2001
Type of Measure	Social services > Shelter/Safe accommodation
Form of Violence	Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence

Brief Description

While there is no shelter dedicated to victims of domestic violence, a non-governmental organization “Hour Glass Foundation” operates Hero House and arranges emergency housing for three to five days for victims of domestic violence. This programme utilizes the homes of volunteers for the placement of persons in need of emergency accommodation.

The Directorate has recently collaborated with Hero House enabling the extension of services to skills training and the provision of a building

Source of Information

ECLAC/CDCC, ‘An Evaluative Study on the Implementation of Domestic Violence Legislation: Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines’, LC/CAR/G.659, ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, November 2001.