With only two days until Christmas the Tauranga Women's Refuge team haven't stopped work.
Today they will deliver food parcels and presents to 22 Bay families while also still taking calls from women in crisis and accepting them into their safe house - summer is one of the busiest times of year.
This year the Tauranga Women's Refuge answered 1872 crisis calls, and housed 158 women and children in their safe house.
It was only paid to answer 360 of those calls which provide support, advice and advocacy for women in need. The organisation was paid $21.25 an hour by the government to cover all the staff costs. Yet its two full time and six part-time workers soldiered on.
As well as providing shelter for women and taking crisis calls, they also delivered 42 12-week programmes for children who had witnessed domestic violence. They were only paid for 12.