background may be or their economic status util lack of funding women s shelters don t have enough space for all the women who need help the german government says it has earmarked forty one million euros for women s shelters and advisory offices in the next two years it s a first step but critics say it doesn t go far enough middle of violet s speech she sold us right now we have the situation where places are taken within a matter of hours we have to turn down a lot of women and two thousand seven hundred seven thousand four hundred women were turned away in this region because we didn t have enough space. for sandra securing a place in the shelters saved her life she says without the support here she may never have been able to break out of the cycle of abuse. to worthing is that i let myself get involved with a man and the best thing is that i made to break away from him and can start my life in new. centers to move into her own apartment with her child soon