https://www.sweetdreamsfoundation.com.au/home daily 1.0 2021-04-20 https://www.sweetdreamsfoundation.com.au/contact daily 0.75 2020-11-09 https://www.sweetdreamsfoundation.com.au/about-her daily 0.75 2020-11-09 https://www.sweetdreamsfoundation.com.au/donate daily 0.75 2020-11-17 https://www.sweetdreamsfoundation.com.au/about-us daily 0.75 2020-11-09 https://www.sweetdreamsfoundation.com.au/our-vision daily 0.75 2020-11-09 https://www.sweetdreamsfoundation.com.au/privacy-policy-terms-service daily 0.75 2020-11-09 https://www.sweetdreamsfoundation.com.au/help-us daily 0.75 2020-11-09 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f34c804ae22516565ea61ea/t/5fa8ded857ab6273a4b86c33/1604902633884/image.jpg Help Us - Examples of where your generous gifts may go: $20 – can provide emergency recharge for a mobile phone; $50 – can supply pyjamas, toiletries and sanitary items; $100 – can contribute to a week’s worth of emergency groceries; $500 – can help access to a short retraining and education course; $1,000 – can contribute to the purchase of a laptop and internet access for a year. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f34c804ae22516565ea61ea/t/5fa8a637099a931d36ffa2fe/1604888134596/ Help Us https://www.sweetdreamsfoundation.com.au/sponsors daily 0.75 2020-11-09 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f34c804ae22516565ea61ea/t/5fa8d3a3ef83d42c47d7d5e1/1604899816566/Bankstown-Sports-Logo.png Sponsors https://www.sweetdreamsfoundation.com.au/melissa-story daily 0.75 2020-11-09 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f34c804ae22516565ea61ea/t/5fa8c34d3c84443d2d606816/1604897415958/ Melissa's Story - Melissa’s story. When I first met him, I thought he was so cool. He was always showering me with attention. I didn’t get that much, but he was telling me how great I looked, how we were so in sync, and how he could picture our future together. We quickly started spending ALL our time together and I didn’t really notice that I didn’t see my friends anymore. We moved in together a couple of months after we met. He had great taste and really liked telling me what to wear and then he told me that he liked “healthy”, skinny girls so I had to lose some weight and only eat when and what he said I could. But I thought he just wanted the best for me. I was such an idiot. By the time I finally saw the red flags I’d been ignoring, he controlled my life and I’d even given him $75,000 that I’d inherited from my grandma. I’d been going to buy a place but he said he’d take care of it. I was massively underweight, walking on eggshells and too ashamed to reach out to any of my friends. I walked out with nothing. Knowing that I had a safe place to go and people to support me who understood how I felt really would make a difference to all women like me. https://www.sweetdreamsfoundation.com.au/nidhi-story daily 0.75 2020-11-09 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f34c804ae22516565ea61ea/t/5fa8c46557ab6273a4b60b13/1604897385207/ Nidhi's Story - Nidhi’s story. I had been living in Australia for 10 years before I met my husband. My husband comes from our home country. Our parents thought it would be a good match and we were married there before he moved to Australia with me. I was so excited to be married and was looking forward to having a family – he seemed like a kind man and well educated. I thought we would be happy together. Almost straightaway my life changed – he found it hard to get work in his field and that made him angry. He controlled all our money and just gave me enough to buy groceries with. I had to save all the receipts so he could make sure that I hadn’t “wasted” the money on anything for myself. Before I met him, I had Australian friends, but he didn’t want me to see them anymore and would ring me constantly if I was out of the house – which I only left to go to work. He wanted children immediately and was very demanding in that way, even when I said I didn’t want to. Eventually he started locking me in the house when he went out. And he’d take my phone with him. I tried to be a good wife, but nothing I did was “right”. Leaving him will be hard – I have no money of my own and he’s told everyone in our community that I am a bad woman. Hearing about the Sweet Dreams Foundation gives me hope that I might be able to change my situation soon. https://www.sweetdreamsfoundation.com.au/petra-story daily 0.75 2020-11-09 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f34c804ae22516565ea61ea/t/5fa8c61ab47b7035e12f451d/1604897323722/ Petra's Story - Petra’s story. I’ve been married for 25 years. I’ve been a good wife. Always taking care of my husband and family. It’s hard to make my husband happy. He tells me that I’m stupid, fat and lazy. If I talk back to him he says he will kill my dog. I see other women whose husbands love them and are kind and I wish I could have had that kind of marriage. I am old now and think there is nowhere for me to go. One of my daughters told me that there are people who can help me. But it’s hard to get away with no money and no car. He drives me everywhere because he loves me. I think it’s because he likes controlling me.