More time for cases.

Emergency access to advice.

Help obtaining records.

Practical support when financial control made leaving possible in theory and impossible that night.

The work required lawyers with the right qualifications, partnerships in the jurisdictions where families lived, clear funding commitments, and honest limits on what assistance could promise.

No organization could guarantee that every woman would win every case.

It could make it harder for a person to lose simply because she could not afford to be heard.

That was what I wanted to fund.