Spokane’s Women Helping Women Fund (WHWF) celebrated Airway Heights-based nonprofit Women's Healing & Empowerment Network - WHEN (WHEN) and its program Frieda’s Healing Center at its annual Give Like a Woman event on May 21.

"To see all those women and their passion and to know they are looking out for an organization like ours was just amazing,” said WHEN founder and Chief Executive Director Mable Dunbar.

WHWF awarded grants to area nonprofits. WHEN received $20,000 to expand and improve Frieda’s Healing Center. The safe house offers counseling and support for women recovering from trauma, violence, and difficult life challenges.

"Frieda's Healing Center provides everything for women through different programs, our food bank, and clothing closet," explained Dunbar. "We also work in connection with victims' services and the Airway Heights Police Department as part of a network that provides healing and help to victims of domestic violence in the West Plains and even across the country.”

The WHWF event offered WHEN representatives the chance to educate about the center’s holistic healing services, including counseling, support groups, workshops, and wellness activities designed to promote mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

"We are grateful to the Women Helping Women Fund," Dunbar said. "It was a wonderful experience to be a part of a chain of diverse organizations and grantees with the purpose of building up women.".