Monthly fundraiser to benefit new domestic violence shelter in Sarasota
Justin Matthews reports
SARASOTA, Fla. - The non-profit organization Queens of Domestic Violence Awareness hosted its first-ever First Friday fundraiser at the newly-named Queens Field on Orange Avenue and Martin Luther King, Jr. Way in Sarasota.
The event will happen every first Friday of the month for a year and proceeds will go toward opening a new domestic violence shelter in Sarasota County. Right now domestic violence is on the rise, we have a shelter here in Sarasota but it s pretty full, so I feel that if we have another shelter, no woman would have to stay in a domestic violence situation, they will always have a place to go, said Rhonda Calahan, the founder of the organization.