Africa-Press – Cape verde. The community of Calabaceira, in the city of Praia, now has an information service to support women activists who act in preventing and combating the VBG, but the entire community as a whole.
The information service on the VG (SIS-VBG) is part of the “Fla sim pa Mudjer” project of the Cape Verdean Association against Gender-Based Violence and aims to form a group of women community leaders in various social domains for the multiplication of information in communities, aiming at preventing and combating VBG.
Speaking to the press, the coordinator Nair Tavares said that the project foresees an awareness-raising work with circles of conversations in the communities, lectures in schools, but also to make the care of women in situations of violence and refer them to the network of services.
“This information service that we are creating is to support the group of women who are acting in the communities and inform the community as a whole about the prevention and combating of the VBG, but also bringing citizenship issues, which are related issues to violence,” he said.
The idea, according to the coordinator, is to also take action with young people and children to prevent violence.
Taking into account the organization, dynamics and performance of the women of this locality, he said that the project was first launched in the community of Calabaceira, but stressed the intention is to take the initiative to other neighborhoods of the capital.
In turn, the Minister of Justice, Joana Rosa, who was present at the inauguration act, recognized that it is necessary to work the problem of gender-based violence and has tarnished the image of the country at the international level.
To this end, he stressed that it is necessary to work on prevention through legal information, legal literacy that involves empowering associations, some municipalities concerned, churches, so that they can transmit good information about the legal framework and the situation of violence, for example, how to act and react.
He assured that at the beginning of the judicial year of this year will be inaugurated the days of justice, a decentralized space that will serve to discuss several themes namely the VBG, sexual rape against children, drug trafficking, capital laundering and human trafficking.
“There are several challenges that we have at the country level and we have to share, take this information to society, work it in a way so that the target audience can better understand a simple language and we can reduce the crime rate of VBG in our country,” she said.
At the time, the governor also highlighted that these associations are fundamental partners taking into account that they work directly with society.
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