Chaya

Chaya is a community-based non profit organization established in 1996 to serve South Asian women in crisis and to mobilize South Asian communities toward to goal of stopping domestic violence.

Chaya is the only organization that specifically addresses the needs of South Asian women in Seattle/King County. Chaya's greatest strength is that it is a network of people who are primarily South Asian, who understand the cultural norms and stigmas associated with domestic violence, and believe in the inherent strength and potential of each woman to address situations in which there has been systematic emotional and physical violence. Chaya's services are free, confidential and available to any woman in need.