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Domestic violence victims interact on new Web site
The Pluma Project was started by a UO grad student for her non-profit management class
by Tiffany Kimmel | Freelance Reporter |
A bird flies through the air, catching the wind on it wings and soaring to unknown heights. This is the kind of hope that the Pluma Project, a Web site where survivors of domestic violence can share their stories through artwork and writing, wants to inspire.
The Pluma Project was started by University of Oregon graduate student Lauren Zavrel in an effort to promote outside communication for those who submit work to the site.
"The main idea for the site was to make it comfortable for women survivors of domestic violence to feel at ease when submitting expressions of violence from all kinds of situations," Zavrel said. "You don't have to have a black eye to have gone through domestic abuse."
Zavrel, who began working on this project for a non-profit management class, said that as she got going the project became a reality.
By starting at a local level she has already begun promoting her Web site through organizations such as the White Bird Clinic, the Pearl Buck Center, the county jail, WomenSpace, the Sexual Assault Center, the University Health Center, Riverstone Clinic and more.
There will even be a fundraiser for the project at Track Town Pizza tonight. Those who print off a flier from the project's Web site, www.plumaproject.org, and bring it to Track Town can have 50 percent of their meal cost donated to the project.
When asked how she planned to get submissions from women who had gone or who were currently going through abuse, Zavrel said she had already begun placing drop boxes at various survival centers. She hopes to soon be able to reach all of the organizations that are promoting the project. She put out drop boxes because "a lot of survivors do not have access to computers."
The Pluma Project was started by University of Oregon graduate student Lauren Zavrel in an effort to promote outside communication for those who submit work to the site.
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Zavrel, who began working on this project for a non-profit management class, said that as she got going the project became a reality.
By starting at a local level she has already begun promoting her Web site through organizations such as the White Bird Clinic, the Pearl Buck Center, the county jail, WomenSpace, the Sexual Assault Center, the University Health Center, Riverstone Clinic and more.
There will even be a fundraiser for the project at Track Town Pizza tonight. Those who print off a flier from the project's Web site, www.plumaproject.org, and bring it to Track Town can have 50 percent of their meal cost donated to the project.
When asked how she planned to get submissions from women who had gone or who were currently going through abuse, Zavrel said she had already begun placing drop boxes at various survival centers. She hopes to soon be able to reach all of the organizations that are promoting the project. She put out drop boxes because "a lot of survivors do not have access to computers."
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