WHAT WE DO
Our mission is to support women out of isolation to become leaders and to be recognised as experts by experience. We take collective action to inform and influence the policy, legal, social and political reform required to end intimate abuse.
All women survivors are welcome including women from diverse communities.
We are experts by our shared experience of surviving abuse and by growing, sharing and acting together we will help end intimate abuse together.
Through SiSi, survivors can share their truths and collectively raise each other up.
WE DO THIS BY
Tackling Isolation
Supporting Individual Survivors
Building Capacity
Experts by Experience
Giving Voice
Advocacy to support positive Policy and Legislative Change
Growing Strong
A Sustainable Organisation
About our founder
Mary-Louise Lynch is the Founding Director of SiSi where she strategically leads a collective of women survivors of intimate partner violence to drive change and transform systems. After spending a decade and a half navigating the complexities of escaping an abusive relationship, Mary-Louise saw how difficult and unfair systemic responses to women in her position can be. She has learned a thing or two about surviving post-separation abuse and founded SiSi to share her learning with others and where possible to use her platform to raise up other women to become leaders and be recognised as experts by experience.
Mary-Louise has an academic background in History, Philosophy, Women's Studies, Transformative Leadership and Specialised Group Facilitation. She is Ireland's current expert appointed to the European Observatory on Violence Against Women at the European Women's Lobby. She served as a Board Member of West Cork Beacon from 2018-2022. She now lives in Co. Donegal with her husband and three sons. One day she will write a novel but for now she continues to be moved to action by the stories told by other survivors.
Starting to work to address intimate partner violence and abuse over a decade ago. Mary-Louise leads SiSi as a voluntary organisation and continues to build a place where women find peer support, mentorship, advice and information, informed by the experience of other survivors. Mary-Louise puts success down to the courage of women who have gone before her and on difficult days she remembers that until men's violence against women is stamped out there will always be women in need of SiSi.
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