The implicit message I want to give to children is: 'Look, here is a villa made just for your children. The villa is sturdy, mobile and made from sustainable design materials. No expense has been spared; on the contrary. If your children - the dolls - are happy, this contributes to your own happiness.'

  
     
 

At women’s shelters, the villa stimulates contact between children who are in similar situations. Feelings of shame and humiliation are released through the children’s ability to share these feelings with one another. Their mothers also join in, helping to create a relaxed atmosphere in which they can spend quality time with their children, something which has been absent in these families for so long. The villa is also used as a form of therapeutic play. A sponsor recognised this value and donated a LILIANE leading doll’s villa to every women’s shelter in the Netherlands.

  
     
     
 

  

  
     
 

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Johan Gortworst | Director of the Dutch Federation of Shelters [Federatie Opvang]:
"The Federation believes it is of vital importance to invest in children in shelters [6,700 each year], as this can help prevent problems in the future. Often, the children themselves become perpetrators or victims of violence, domestic and otherwise, later down the line. No stone is left unturned to give these children a positive new start and a dolls villa such as this can certainly help. It helps teach the children how to play again, how to play with their mothers, and helps build an ideal home where there is no violence. These are all fantastic things that the children have not often experienced.
This process rebuilds the basis that gives the children the freedom to be a child again. It allows them to grow up in the way that every child should. By investing in this dolls villa, you are investing in a better future for these children."

  
     
 
     
     
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

DONATION TO DUTCH WOMEN'S SHELTERS

All women's shelters as well as social shelters in the Netherlands will receive a LILIANE dolls villa. In this way, the sponsor is contributing to the renewal of contact between mothers and their children, victims of domestic violence.

The Federation of Dutch Care Centres: "The centres are very impressed with this sponsor's gesture. The LILIANE dolls villa is an addition to the help available to children at the centres. However, it's not just for children, the villa also invites the mothers to play. This relaxed contact between mother and child is essential for both of them. The dolls' villa is also used to observe children at play, establish a rapport with a child and to recreate difficult home situations so that painful experiences can be handled."