Bean Foundation grant funds Catholic Charities’ domestic violence program for immigrants and refugees
Catholic Charities Office of Immigrant and Refugee Services has received a grant to help represent immigrant victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
MANCHESTER, NH — Catholic Charities Office of Immigrant and Refugee Services has received a grant to help represent immigrant victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Basra Mohamed, a graduate of the University of New Hampshire Law School, will work out of the Manchester District Office. The Norwin and Elizabeth Bean Foundation is supporting the program.
“The percentage of immigrant women who are victims of domestic violence is shockingly higher than the national average,” says Cathy Chesley, Director of Immigration and Refugee Services. “You have to understand that many victims come from cultures where domestic violence is accepted and many feel the protections of our legal system do not apply to them.”
As a legal intern for Catholic Charities, Ms. Mohamed worked as a legal advocate for a federally funded grant with the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Violence against Women. She was also a judicial clerk for the Immigration Court (Executive Office of Immigration Review) in Boston and a law clerk for the New Hampshire Supreme Court Attorney Discipline Office.
The Bean Foundation is a general purpose charitable foundation which awards grants in the fields of arts and humanities, education, environment, health, human services and public/society benefit to organizations in Manchester and Amherst.
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