The Description of the DVSA Shelter...

The description about the DVSA shelter in Austin announces that they will be closing its doors in February 2005; whereas, in fact, it actually closed its doors to the smaller of the two shelter loactions it possessses yesterday, January 21st, as per the news broadcast last night. They all indicated that, as one door closes though another one opens, and mentions that, because the Texas Legislation is presenlty in session, they hope that consideration for additioanl funding is given to domestic violence shelters. It seems such a crime to not have more funding available for these shelters as they play a pivotal role in aiding to break the cycle of abuse by empowering the victims to move forward with their lives. I don't envy Governor Perry's role in working with the lawmakers to come up wiht a viable solution to devy out available funds to all the organizations reliant on grants and other funding resources; however, this area has suffered many cuts in funding in the past few years; there has to be a point where you have to look for other organizations' corners to be cut and give back a little more to an area that has been cut, admittingly, too drastically.