Alla Kvinnors Hus - All Womens House

Millions of women are annually subjected to abuse and assulted by men known to them. Our association is Europe's largest women's shelter.

About us
All Womens House runs a protective housing shelter for women and children in central Stockholm. The organisation is a voluntary, feminist association with non-political interests. All Womens House has about 500 members of which 100 are actively employed in voluntary refuge work. All women exposed to mens´s violence are welcome to seek help, regardless of background or nationality.

The association was founded in the fall of 1978 as Sweden’s first independent shelter organisation. The organisation is financed by membershep fees, community grants, donations and contributions from individuals and companies.

Help lines
We offer support and counceling through our help lines and every year we get thousands of calls. For many women calling us, it is the first time they have a chance to talk about their situation of abuse. The call can be the first step towards a change. We have help lines for different support groups.

Call our help line telephone number 08- 644 09 20 every evening from 6 pm to 9 pm.

• Support group for legal questions; call every Wednesday and Sunday
• Support group for teenage girls and young women; call every Thursday
• Support group for the deaf; call Thursdays on even weeks on 08-615 13 58 and 08-615 13 59

During days the best time to call is from 10 am to 12 noon.

During the nights and week-ends our volonteer women manage the help lines. To ensure high quality in our operations, training gives refuge workers the required knowledge needed to support those who call.

Support and Advice
We can, with aid from lawyers, provide legal support and advice for individual women, directing them in how to proceed with their case.

We support immigrant women, to the widest possible degree, and try to see that they can use their own language.

Women who turn to All Womens House can receive councelling in group discussions. The group can share experiences and on the way give each other mutual support.

We also provide a refuge worker to accompany the woman on trials, visits to the police or doctor and other contacts with authorities.

Team for raped women (Team för Våldtagna Kvinnor) are directed to girls and women who have been exposed to obligatory sex or rape, and also to their relatives. The Team offers support and crisis councelling. They also work very actively with education and information, together with The Crisis Centre for Women (Kriscentrum för kvinnor)

Sheltered Living
Sometimes women and children have to leave their home, due to violence or threat of violence. We can give them temporary shelter in our house on Svartensgatan in Södermalm. The women and their children have their own room or flat where they cater for themselves. Our goal is that their stay at the shelter should be as short as possible. On average women stay for 35 days.

Child Activities
The majority of women who contact us have children. As a child, to see your mother abused and exposed to assault, is an act of violence in itself. All Womens House give the children special support where supportive councelling and group work are important parts.

Spreading Knowledge
The need for spreading information about men’s violence to women is very large. We campaign to influence public opinion and participate in both external arrangements as well as organising our own meetings and functions.

To spread knowledge we arrange seminars, lectures and discussions. Every year we also have hundreds of study tours for visitors, individuals, groups, authorities and foreign guests.

Contact info
Alla Kvinnors Hus
Visiting address: Svartensgatan 3
Box: 4023
Postal address: 102 61 Stockholm
Phone: 08-644 09 25
Fax: 08-644 32 19
Mail: info@allakvinnorshus.org
Website: http://www.allakvinnorshus.org
Website for Tjejjouren (support group for teenage girls and young women): http://www.allakvinnorshus.org/tjejjouren