DAIWS Shelter For Women

Mediserve nursing Agency supports  Darwin Aboriginal and Islander Women’s Shelter Inc.

DAIWS  provides culturally appropriate services in our communities through Crisis accommodation,  education,  and healing programs to decrease incidents of all kinds of violence to enable families to live peaceful, sustainable, happy and resilient lives.

DAIWS is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community service committed to providing culturally appropriate, holistic, caring and innovative services with support from other organisations and community members.

DAIWS has been operating since 1986, it is the only Aboriginal managed Domestic Violence Service in the N.T.  It is governed by 7 Aboriginal women on the Management Committee, and has a membership of 46 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.