Join the San Francisco JACL Chapter at our annual benefit dinner, Saturday December 5, 2015 in SF Japantown! Proceeds from this year's dinner will go to support the Asian Women's Shelter. Due to safety advisories this crab season causing a shortage of local crab, our menu has changed this year to shrimp and boneless shortrib roast for the main entree. Join us for a delicious dinner, also served with salad, garlic bread, and dessert! Wine and soft beverages will be available from a cash bar.

Event Details:
Saturday, December 5, 2015
5:00pm-7:30pm
Christ United Presbyterian Church, 1700 Sutter Street (at Laguna), San Francisco, CA  94115
Pre-sale tickets: $30, $15 for children 5-12 years old
At the Door: $40
Dine-In and Take-Out tickets available.

Please fill out the form below if you wish to have tickets held for you at the door at pre-sale price. Pre-sale prices are $30, $40 at the door, and $15 for children 5-12 years old. Please also indicate if you are dining-in or picking up your order for take-out.  Please bring check or cash payment with you to the door. Checks can be made out to the "San Francisco JACL Chapter"
 
Please don't hesitate to e-mail us at sfjacl@yahoo.com or to call event chair Haruka Roudebush at (415) 203-7002 if you have any questions.  Thank you from the San Francisco JACL Chapter and Asian Women's Shelter, and we look forward to serving you!

ABOUT ASIAN WOMEN'S SHELTER:

Asian Women's Shelter (AWS) was founded in 1988 to address the needs of women, children and transgender survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking, especially those who are immigrants and refugees. The survivors we work with every day embody the true meaning of courage, hope, and determination. They inspire our unrelenting commitment to end violence in our families, communities, and our world.

MISSION & VISION
The mission of Asian Women's Shelter (AWS) is to eliminate domestic violence by promoting the social, economic and political self-determination of women. AWS is committed to every person's right to live in a violence-free home, and has a specific focus towards addressing the cultural and language needs of immigrant, refugee, and U.S.-born Asian women and their children. This perspective is reflected in the organization's broad strategy, which integrates culturally competent and language-accessible shelter services, educational programs, and community-based advocacy.

AWS is committed to every person's right to live in a violence-free home, and has a specific focus towards addressing the cultural and language needs of immigrant, refugee, and U.S.-born Asian women and their children. This perspective is reflected in the organization's broad strategy, which integrates culturally competent and language-accessible shelter services, educational programs, and community-based advocacy.
While we have the cultural and language capacity to address the specific needs of individuals from Pan-Asian backgrounds, we welcome all survivors.  We provide language accessibility, educational programs, community-based initiatives and advocacy.  All of our services and programs seek to address an interplay of factors affecting survivors, including sexism, racism, ageism, classism, ableism and heterosexism.

Because AWS recognizes the abuse of power as the root cause of violence, all of our work is rooted in an anti-oppression framework. We are a non-hierarchical, consensus-based organization and operate in a shared leadership model.  We continuously seek to collaborate with other organizations in order to build a network of services beyond AWS.  These efforts not only help us serve our clients, but create a stronger voice for our advocacy and policy work.

For more information about AWS, go to: http://www.sfaws.org/