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Topeka starts program to help prostitutes

LJWorld.com - Associated Press, Topeka - Thursday, February 1, 2007 -- "Topeka police have begun a program designed to give prostitutes the help they may need to get off the streets. Part of the program involves giving the women “bags of hope,” clutch handbags full of hygiene products and information on such things as how to fight addictions or learn job skills."

Woman finds the strength to overcome abuse

The Wichita Eagle Online, Mark McCormick, Wed, Sep. 19, 2007 -- " It's not enough to say that Mary's husbands have beaten her. Her first husband used to tell her, "When I'm done with you, no one will ever want you," she said. Her second husband broke her jaw in 2004.

Both husbands presented her with life's profound questions:

Can I make it?

Can I survive the literal and figurative beatings ahead of me? Can I overcome my fears? Can I be happy?

Making it used to seem impossible for her. There were nights the 49-year-old mother of five wiped blood out of her eyes, she said, not knowing if she'd make it to the morning.

Somehow, she did."

YWCA of Wichita is honored with a Brick from the YWCA of Wichita.

Women's Studies site at WSU - Historical Review of the YWCA of Wichita