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...immigrants, we are less likely to speak out against our batterers because we're trying to protect our ethnic group. We don't want to be divisive," says Baliga, the daughter of Indian immigrants...
...Baliga says she will compile a database of legal, counseling, and community services similar to the Women's Information Service Hotline (WISH) run out of Rad- cliffe's Lyman Common Room. She will translate the information into Hindi and disseminate it through universities and South Asian organizations, temples and mosques...
Looking to universities as a pool of resources, Baliga hopes to draw student volunteers and create sustainability. Once the database exists, it can be incorporated by university South Asian and women's groups, South Asian cultural institutions and all other women's organizations in the San Francisco area...
...This year is a step in refining my ideas about what women need," Baliga says, although she has not decided what she will do after her year or two in California. She hopes her work will help her decide how to "channel [her] energies into serving women for the rest of [her] life...
Fels, like Baliga, envisions drawing support and volunteers from universities. Her shelter will be affiliated with Phillips Brooks House for tax purposes, and will be staffed primarily by volunteers from Harvard, Wellesley, MIT and Tufts...