The Downtown Eastside Women's Centre offers a safe, non-judgmental environment for women, including cis, trans, and Two-Spirit individuals who live and/or work in the neighbourhood, providing safety to 1,200 women of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside every day. Across our five, low-barrier sites, we provide a wide range of supports and services to women who are greatly vulnerable to exploitation, injustice, and violence and experience remarkably elevated levels of violence, homelessness, addictions, and poverty due to decades of systemic and policy failures. We exist to support women with basic needs like meals and safe washrooms, to counselling, housing outreach, sexual assault response, mental health advocacy, and culturally specific programming for Indigenous women and Chinese seniors.