About Breath Mate

Our Mission

All of us at Breath Mate believe that women and children should have the opportunity to live free of violence and abuse. From every purchase, Breath Mate provides part of its profits to the Yorktown Shelter for Women, a non-profit organization with the vision that “all women and children will live lives free of violence and abuse”.

Our Approach

At least one in three women in North America have experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16. In the United States almost three women are killed by an intimate partner every day. In Canada, women is killed by her intimate partner approximately every six days.

On any given night in North America over 57,000 women and their sleep in shelters because it isn’t safe at home. 

On any given night in North America, about 14,500 women and children are turned away because shelters are already full