Women In Need (WIN) is a Non Governmental Organisation in Sri Lanka that specialises in the field of gender based violence and deal with thousands of GBV, specifically domestic violence, cases every year. The team is driven by a passion to strengthen and protect victims suffering violence and abuse, ensuring strict confidentiality of identity; while also striving to ensure that the violence is not repeated, and the victims’ rights are protected.

WIN provides essential crisis intervention support services to victims of violence so that women who are crippled by their situations are made strong, independent and protected. Apart from the support that WIN provides its victims, WIN creates a sense of importance for why women need to be independent and strong – through livelihood programmes and social enterprise initiatives for victims; WIN guides them to take up some form of employment in order to support themselves and their families.

WIN also effectively works with key stakeholders in society, including law enforcement, medical officers and middle-level government officers in order to get closer to achieving its goal of a violence free society. WIN has been persistently working at the advocacy level, contributing significantly in state dialogue on gender and violence, pushing for law and policy changes, and leading discussions on action plans to ensure equal fundamental rights for women and girls in Sri Lanka.

WIN does not stop at the advocacy level, but also works at community level, educating and sensitising men and women, teenage girls and boys, and students; in order to help understand the need for a gender equal society at every stratum in society.

Women In Need is present across the country, with 9 crisis centres, help desks and shelters island wide.