Partnership gives homeless women refuge at former Oklahoma City church

→Where: 2133 SW 11.

→Needs: Monetary donations, small bottles of juice, fruit cups and other snack items, volunteers.

→Information: 526-2321; e-mail: sanctuary okc@gmail.com.

→Has served 72 women since its April 20 debut.

→Fifty percent of the women have some kind of disability.

→Seventy percent of the women are being helped to get a job, housing or other needs met.

→Six women are veterans.

→Ten are chronically homeless.

→Thirty-three women have reported that they suffer from some mental illness.

→Fifteen have substance abuse problems.

→Eight have developmental disabilities.

→Twenty-five have physical disabilities.

→Thirty have experienced domestic violence.

→Clients have made 498 visits to the center since its opening.

SOURCE: Sanctuary Women’s Development Center