What makes the HotPeachPages so important? Every country, every shelter, every tongue. Abuse information and support for every woman and every girl on earth. That’s the aim of the HotPeachPages website. At this point, we offer links to:

• abuse information in over 100 languages; and
• information on abuse help agencies for every country in the world.

How amazing is that?

We do not provide direct service. If you are in need of assistance, search our site for the agencies closest to you, and contact them for information and support.

The HotPeachPages is looking for celebrity spokeswomen like:

• Katniss Everdeen,
• Jennifer Lawrence,
• Emma Stone,
• Kate Middleton,
• American First Lady Michelle Obama,
• Oprah,
• Megan Fox,
• Jeri Ryan,

and is also in need of funding;

• Bill and Melinda Gates would very likely support the HotPeachPages, if only they knew about it.
• Oprah, too, perhaps.
• Warren Buffett?
• Ellen?

If you can introduce us to a funder or a celebrity spokeswoman, .

The HotPeachPages is maintained by Gin Fisher. The site is checked as often as possible for broken links.

"Hot" for hot-lines, crisis-lines, and "Peach Pages" like in the phone book (i.e. white pages, yellow pages, blue pages)

In 2002, when this web site was becoming known world-wide on the internet, someone asked by email, "Why is this domestic abuse website called the "HotPeachPages"? The name does not reflect the content, and it makes it sound like a porn site." Here is the answer to that concern:

The HotPeachPages started out as a resource for phone books in Saskatchewan, Canada:

• here's an article on the conception, birth and development of the HotPeachPages web site; and
• voici un article sur la conception, la naissance et le développement de le site HotPeachPages.

The page for the phone book was developed in two parts ( see the 2000-2001 version):

• a column of information on abuse; and
• a column of local abuse help agencies and their phone numbers.

Because some of the phone numbers were 'Hotlines' (crisis lines and emergency numbers) and because other pages in the phone book have 'colours' for names (i.e. the white pages, yellow pages and blue pages), we decided to call our new abuse information page the "HotPeachPages".

During the five years we worked to get the HotPeachPages into the Saskatchewan phone book, and then to advertise its location, not once did an abused woman ever express a concern about the name 'HotPeachPages'. Not once. Sure, a few bureaucrats and one male police officer fussed over it, but not one survivor of abuse. On the contrary, survivors liked the name—it was like a secret code name just for them and their special page. They could tell each other about it without having the name of the resource label their conversation if they didn't want it to. And that was good enough for us.

That it may be mistaken for a porn site is not a negative—it is such a good resource, once women hear about it they access it without hesitation. That we get hits from men looking for 'hot women' (and we do) doesn't hurt the HotPeachPages and might even help those men. (As a matter of fact, on January 19, 2005, someone who queried the phrase "hot women arabic" was sent by a search engine to the HotPeachPages, and ended up visiting 7 of our pages!) By putting it to our own use, we can take back some power from the word 'Hot'.

• The name 'Yellow Pages' doesn't reflect the content of the yellow pages in the phone book.
  
  
• Neither 'Yahoo!' nor 'Google' sound like a search engine.
  
  
• 'aardvarc' doesn't sound like an abuse, rape and domestic violence aid and resource collection (see www.aardvarc.org).
  
  
• 'Hotmail' does not make us think of porn.

If the powers that be can make Yellow Pages, Google and Hotmail mean whatever they want them to mean, so can women make the 'HotPeachPages' mean whatever we want.

And we have.

1. get a website and link to the HotPeachPages from it;
   
   
2. encourage your umbrella (peak) organization to:
   
   
• get a website and make sure it's listed on the HotPeachPages;
• list all its members on its website (including contact info), with a link to every member that has its own website; and
• link to the HotPeachPages;


3. send the HotPeachPages any abuse material in languages other than English that you come across, whether you find it on the internet, or in electronic or print form (street address available on request);
   
   
4. if you don't have abuse material in the language of a woman you are serving, check to see if the HotPeachPages has abuse information in her language, and print it out for her if she'd like.

Adding to our world-wide HotPeachPages is easy—just email the HotPeachPages with information about and/or links to agencies in your:

• province,
• state,
• country, or
• region,

or with a link to abuse information in a language other than English, and we'll add the information to our site.

PLEASE NOTE: In most cases, we cannot provide links to individual agencies—there are simply too many single agency links in the world to manage. Instead, we provide links to lists of agencies. Before you submit your suggestion, do check to see if an agency you want to suggest is already listed on one of the lists we link to.

Please add a link from your site to the HotPeachPages. For every agency that links to the HotPeachPages, so many more women will find the information they need to break free from abuse. Here are a few choices by size of image-links you could add to your site (images with dark background and white lettering available on request).

PLEASE NOTE: If you use an image, you must download it to your site rather than use the image location on our site, because our .htaccess file will not allow the latter.

                 

                 

           


And here's the biggest logo we have, to be used to make whatever size you need.

"Fate was on my side when I heard you talk about the HotPeachPages web site on the radio. I never knew such great information and resources existed. I also learned that I am not crazy in thinking there has been something wrong with my life for several years now. I was led to believe it was all my fault. Now I know better ... I could go on but you have probably heard 'my' story many, many times! I just want to send you my gratitude for all the wonderful information that I found in my quest for a better life and well being." anonymous Canadian woman, 2000

"I have just been reading some of the information on your website ... never have I seen a more complete and expert informational piece of work!!! THANK YOU. It is my strong opinion that everyone needs this information!!! I will be emailing all my friends that this info is here ...." United Church Ministry Student, Canada, 2000

"Thanks for letting us know about your great web site. We will be making use of your English, French, Dene, Cree, German and Arabic resources." Unity House, Fort McMurray, AB, Canada, 2000

"Thank you for your ongoing endeavours to provide a valuable reference point for victims/survivors who need to find services in their community." Sexual Assault Care Ontario, ON, Canada, 2001

"merci beaucoup d'avoir fait le changement si rapidement et pour l'info. Votre site est une très bonne ressource. thanks for making the change so fast and we really appreciate your web site, it's very useful. thank you and continue your good work !" Action ontarienne contre la violence faite aux femmes, ON, Canada, 2001

"We will link to your site—it's great." Women's Aid Federation of England, United Kingdom, 2002

"VAWnet will certainly provide a prominent link to your web site .... It is a valuable resource often utilized by Technical Assistance Specialists with the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence." National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women (VAWnet), USA, 2002

"I'm the 'webbie' for the TRCC/MWAR website.... their organization is listed in your fabulously useful directory." Toronto Rape Crisis Centre / Multicultural Women Against Rape, ON, Canada, 2003

"Many thanks for the HotPeachPages—very useful in our crisis work—a lot of women contact us from all over the world, a lot through the Rape Relief website, and we're able to track down supports closer to home much more easily now." Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter, BC, Canada, 2004

"Your web site is great, so i'm giving it some good publicity." Violence Free Network Wairarapa, New Zealand, 2004

"We are at present in the process of updating our web site and we will include your fabulous site in our links." Domestic Violence Prevention Centre Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 2004

"I love your pages. A marvellous piece of work." International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement (IIAV), New Name: Aletta Institute for Women's History, The Netherlands, 2004

"The 'HotPeachPages' site is a wonderful resource and for women of all nationalities. I like that the information is accessible in 71 different langauges. Well done." Rape Prevention Education, New Zealand, 2005

"We are writing from a New Jersey domestic violence agency—we are thrilled with this website! Bravo!" New Jersey Coalition for Battered Women, NJ, USA, 2005

"I visited your common good and well presented web site today. It was really awesome experience. Sad thing is you have not included my Kannada language . It is the language of the 60 million people of Karnataka state in India. The Kannada speaking people are all around the world who are very eager to know about your web site content in their own language, like me. I think it will be worth the effort if you include Kannada in your web site." male visitor from New Zealand, 2005

Our reply: "We also feel sad that we do not have information on abuse in every language. Unfortunately, we are a non-funded volunteer organization, and we are only able to present or link to resources that others have published. So far, we have not been able to find abuse information in the Kannada language." HPP webmom, 2005

"It will be good to have VictimLINK on the celebrated HotPeachPages. Cheers." VictimLINK, BC, Canada, 2005

"We have some [multi-lingual] resources which were all produced with funding from the Ontario Women's Directorate. You are very welcome to include them on your fabulous site. They both mention hotpeachpages.net as a recommended resource. ... I love your site!" Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System, ON, Canada, 2005

"Your web site is a FANTASTIC resource!" Centre for Children & Families in the Justice System, ON, Canada, 2005

"I would like to thank you for your work and the amazing resource you have created with HotPeachPages. It is the first place I go to when searching for resources for our clients, who are Americans experiencing domestic violence overseas. Thank you again for all of the wonderful work you do—keep it up!" Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center, USA, 2006

"Your site is beyond wonderful!! Great information!!" Women Against Domestic Violence, USA, 2006

"Thanks so much for your site. We link to it from our resources section. The international agencies you provide are especially useful for us. Sometimes we hear from people in other countries, and, because we only provide services in the US, we direct them to your site for help." RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), USA, 2006

"One of the most comprehensive resources I could find on the web!!" End Violence Against Women INFO Project on Wayback Machine, USA, 2006

"I just wanted to send you a quick thanks for your wonderful site. I don't know where the idea to set up a global resource for SV/DV crisis centers came from, but I have used it many times. I work at the Chicago Rape Crisis Center, in Chicago, IL USA and we have gotten calls from various places in the world. Nice to know you are there when we need help. ... Again, thank you, thank you, thank you!" Chicago Rape Crisis Hotline, a program of the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, USA, March 2007

"I came across the HotPeachPages and I love the resources. Very comprehensive. I ... congratulate you on a fabulous resource." Violence prevention worker, BC, Canada, April 2007

"WOW, what a resource you have there. Congrats on an amazing collection of languages. You will never know all the good it will do in all those places. Boggles the mind. You've made the world a teeny bit smaller (in a good way)." VisiBone (Web Design Tools), USA, April 2007

"Wow! What an amazing website. I just passed it along to all the staff here at Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence." USA, June 2007

"Thanks so much for AiR [an information area within the HotPeachPages] . What a wonderful, amazing resource." anonymous Canadian, July 2007

"I just want to express my admiration for your site, and to let you know that we have added your link to our Family Violence pages. We are a newly launched Australian website targeted to recently separated people. We offer advice and help in accessing assistance, and think your site is an amazing resource. It's a shame that so many women need this information, but we are so glad that we found you. Keep up the good work." Suddenly Separated on Wayback Machine, Australia, September 2007

"The HotPeachPages contains comprehensive lists and information for Australian towns from Darwin to Hobart, Perth to Cooktown, Sydney to Broome. We thoroughly recommend that you bookmark this site." Quote on Family Violence page, Suddenly Separated on Wayback Machine, Australia, 2007

"Thanks for all your hard work. Your site is awesome." National Domestic Violence Hotline, USA, April 2008

"Amazing website, really well done—I am so impressed. Thank you for your hard work!!" Women's Domestic Violence Crisis Service, Australia, 2008

"Great idea! Great service!" Stop the Silence, USA, 2008

"What an amazing venture you have embarked on, good luck." Domestic Violence Crisis Service, Australia, 2008

"The HotPeachPages has assisted Edmonton Women's Shelter (aka WIN House) in our crisis work and brought relief to the faces of women when they read information about abuse in their own language. We can acknowledge the diversity of our community by referring abused women from many nations to a resource that will offer them help in their own language." Edmonton Women's Shelter, AB, Canada 2009

"Wow! The HotPeachPages is a pretty remarkable resource. Thanks!" young South Asian American 2009

"Congrats on a terrific resource and site. I want to thank and congratulate you on your HotPeachPages Domestic Violence Directory. I came across the site while researching links for our own child abuse and domestic violence site Child AbuseWatch. Your site is all that a resource site like this needs to be—visual, comprehensive and well thought out. It's easily accessible and navigated. And the information is spot on. I am certain you have saved many lives with this valuable resource. Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention, USA, Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, September 2009

"Now, if you've been following along, you'll know that I planned to include links to both Canadian and U.K. domestic abuse survivor services. During my search for agencies in other countries, I came across something better than I could have dreamed. And it's a brilliant idea: timely, important, and profound.

It's a site called the HotPeachPages. It's an odd name with its own history, but you'll have to go to the site to find out the story, I'm not going to tell you—not because I'm lazy, but because I want you to go there and see what this site is all about.

The HotPeachPages is a worldwide directory of abuse help organizations in a variety of languages. The site also includes information on Internet security for those using the Web to seek help. In addition, you can find out how to get involved with this amazing organization and learn more about its history.

The HotPeachPages will be included in Patchwork's list of organizations with which you can Get Involved or Get Help. So, get over there, check it out, and spread the word!"

Oct 30, 2009, blog entry at Patchwork: a Domestic Abuse Awareness Project, USA, on Wayback Machine

"The work you've put into the HotPeachPages defies belief." young woman from Canada, December 2009

"I love the way things are arranged, am sure they help women, and the name is great." young woman from Sweden, January 2010

"Thank you for all that your network and website have done and continue to do for survivors living all over the world, and for updating the always changing list of resources that organizations and survivors rely on! Keep up the awesome work. Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center, USA, May 2011

"I love your page and have already sent it to my Alma Maters Trauma advocacy program as a resource. I really appreciate you adding those links and look forward to seeing the growth of Hot Peach Pages!" male visitor from USA, December 2012

"Thank you for adding our organization to this pioneer global directory." ABAAD Resource Center for Gender Equality, Lebanon, February 2013

"Found out about your awesome website during Commission on the Status of Women meetings in New York. Great work! Particularly impressed by how extensive it is ... you've got the whole African continent covered! Out of curiousity, I looked for us—YWCA Zambia—and was more than a little pleased to see us featured. Thank you so much for your time. Once again, fantastic work. Onward and upward." YWCA Zambia, April 2013

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