The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) is a non-governmental organisation which aims to prevent the harm and heal the trauma of rape and sexual abuse in Ireland. For almost 40 years, our work has been synonymous with providing crisis counselling and long-term therapy to adult women and men who have experienced rape, sexual assault and childhood sexual abuse. Our services include a national 24-hour helpline, one-to-one counselling, garda and court accompaniment. Training programmes, policy interventions and public awareness campaigns to prevent sexual violence have always been at the core of our work. Our preventive initiatives are central to a holistic and comprehensive approach to ending the trauma of sexual violence.

Like others, our ambition is often tempered by lack of resources. Nonetheless, in 2017 we were able to
increase therapy services, extend the hours of our policy officer and undertake additional training through increased funding.

Since the DRCC was established in 1979, we have depended on the generosity and goodwill of the wider community, without whom we would not be able to maintain our services for survivors of rape and childhood sexual abuse or our education and research programmes. We greatly appreciate the work of all our fundraising volunteers whose support has made such a difference to our work.

The DRCC is proud to have the support of a growing number of corporate partners, who not only recognise sexual violence as one of the
most frequent forms of trauma but also demonstrate outstanding leadership by working to eliminate its tolerance in society. We remain deeply grateful to all our funders for their investment in our work.