Its network of services and institutions has helped it become one of the country's strongest political parties in recent years, with nine representatives now in Parliament.
Our institutions also work with a range of agencies and professional bodies so a network of services is in place for all students.
The housing benefit on which refuges depend is the lifeblood of the national network of services that keep women and children safe.
"Tell Viv what you want and it will orchestrate this massive network of services that will take care of it," he says.
Air Sahara (www.airsahara.net), based in New Delhi, operates a network of services within the subcontinent and between Delhi and London, and Delhi and Singapore.
"It's really about organizing a community response to create a network of services for children and their families," said Kathy Hopkins, the vice president for community services.
But although this network of services is well organized, it does not feel overly polished, as it sometimes does in places like Napa.
Page A39 NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF A Thanksgiving tribute to Mukhtar Mai, a courageous woman who used compensation money awarded to her after she was gang-raped to build a network of services in rural Pakistan.
For almost 20 years, Hare Krishna devotees in Philadelphia have received millions of dollars in government contracts to run a network of services, including a shelter for homeless veterans, transitional homes for recovering addicts and this halfway house for parolees.
Brick by brick, year by year, pioneering organisations like Refuge have built up a broad network of services that respond to the needs of victims sensitively and creatively – albeit on a shoestring budget.
