Moving Company Offers Free Services To Help Victims Of Domestic Abuse
To help victims of abusive relationships, a California-based moving company is offering free moving services.
It is Meathead Movers, which is partnering with Good Shepherd, a non-profit domestic abuse agency, which will identify individuals in abusive relationships, and then help them to shift to a better environment, according to LA Weekly.
To make it difficult for victims to move ahead in life, abusers tend to isolate victims from friends and relatives, and also manipulate them psychologically, according to the LAist.
Aaron Steed, CEO of Meathead Movers outlined the cases that could be going through the problem. He said that it was hard for him to imagine a victim of domestic abuse, and their possible children, trying to "pack up all their belongings and flee before the abuser returns home."
Steed said they usually got calls from women in need of help who were not in the position to pay for their help, according to Refinery29.
The company was composed of youth student athletes. At first, they hurried to the homes of the abused people in order to provide them free services, but when one incident turned potentially violent, the company realized they needed help from experts.
At every new location the company relocates to, it takes partnership with a domestic abuse center to carry out its services, according to hngn.
"Some people think only doctors or lawyers can help those in need, but everyone has something to offer," Steed says. "For us, it was a no-brainer; if there's something we can do, we're going to do it!"
