Women Support Centers (530)
Women Support Center these are the branches of the Fund “Sukhumi” in Kutaisi, Tskaltubo, Khoni, Terjola, Senaki, Poti, Khurcha / Koki (Zugdidi Municipality), Lanchkhuti, Ozurgeti, created since 2009. The centers are designed to strengthen women, provide social, psychological, legal assistance to women - victims of violence and to crisis families in a difficult life situation. They promote to the protection of women's rights and ensure their socio-psychological rehabilitation.
The project of Poti Women Support Center “Harmonious environment for kids” continues. A training on the topic: “The essence of gender, gender-based violence, types and signs of domestic violence, ways and mechanisms of referring” was held for managers and educators of kindergartens in the hall of Sakrebulo.
The training was full of active inclusion of participants. It was noted that such trainings are important for kindergarten teachers, as the new instructions indicate, involvement in this direction is impertant. The training also focused on the topic of bullying. The methods of identifying the facts of bullying was interesting for the participants.
Participants noted:
"It is important to share this information with teachers and educators."
“I will hold an informational meeting with parents and educators. It is important that the parents should know what we need to respond to.”
Informational meetings with parents of kindergartens No. 6 and No. 16 were held in October, in frames of the small project of Poti Women Support Center “Harmonious Environment for Kids”. The topic of the meetings was domestic violence and its impact on children. There was revealed the necessity of holding a meeting of a psychologist with parents and teachers, with an emphasis on the difficulties of relations between parents and children, as well as improving communication of teachers with kids.
During the meeting with the representative of the pre-school education union, the organizational issues of the planned training were reviewed.
Psychotherapeutic consultative sessions were held with 6 married couples In Senaki, Terjola, Tskaltubo, Kutaisi, and Khurcha (Zugdidi municipality). The psychologist also conducted 8 individual consultations on the problems of hyper activity, fears, aggression and made 2 psychological portraits for adolescents.
4 married couples were consulted via Skype.
Totally 40 beneficiaries received psychotherapeutic consultations.
The couples had consultations in correction of self-awareness so that they could choose non-violent forms of behavior.
In October, both group and individual meetings were held with a lawyer in Women Support Centers of Senaki, Khurcha / Koki, Tskaltubo. The main topic of the meeting is the law on domestic violence, mechanisms of victim protection (arresting and protective orders, interdepartmental council). Besides - personal questions, which were interesting for the meeting participants. Also one telephone consultation was given. Consultations help to solve the problems of the beneficiaries.
The coordinator of the small project of Khoni Women Support Center “Youth against Violence”, met the deputy chairperson of Sakrebulo and the heads of kindergartens of the villages Nakhakhulevi and Kukhi. The conversation touched activities planned within the project.
Short films were shown by activist girls of the Fund “Sukhumi” in school No 4. These were the films: “Narrow Corridor”, “One Ordinary Day”, “Suitcase”, “Armchair”, “Steps”. During the discussion, young people noted that the problems reflected in the films are relevant to this day: integration, migration within the country, domestic violence, conflicts between adolescents, bullying… together we must look for a way out, try to solve them.
Films can be seen at the link:
http://fs-en.ucoz.ru/news/films/1-0-20
In October, 11 cases of violence were identified. The mobilizers of the Women Support Centers of Kutaisi, Tskaltubo, Khoni, Terjola, Senaki, Poti, Lanchkhuti, Khurcha / Koki (Zugdidi municipality) make monthly monitoring of the revealed facts and offer available services to the victim – consultations of psychologist, lawyer and conflictologist. In case of necessity they fill in the questionnaires and prepare documents for awarding the status of victim.
In October, 2 women addressed the psychologist for assistance, a lawyer consulted three of them. The questionnaires show violence from the side of family members against children and women.
In frames of the small project of Tskaltubo Women Support Center, informational meetings were held in the villages of Ternali and Tskaltubo. During the meetings they spoke on the topic of violence against women and domestic violence. They gave examples, there was a discussion about the gaps in the legislation. It was said that the victim should have special programs that contribute to its socio-economic strengthening, as well as, in parallel, it is necessary to work with the rapist.
In frames of the project, a training is planned, with participation of representatives of the Mayor in the villages, doctors, teachers, educators of the kindergartens.
In frames of the small project of Khurcha / Koki Women Support Center, informational meetings were held with women in the villages Orsantia and Kakhati.
The participants spoke about the reasons of domestic violence: socio-economic factors, stereotypical attitudes towards women. Many participants touched the topic of violence against children and bullying.
In frames of the project an informational meeting with representatives of local government was also held. They received information about the planned training.
In October, according to the UN international calendar, there are two important dates: October 11 - International Day of Girls and October 15 - International Day of Rural Women. Informational meetings with women's groups in cities and villages, in IDP collective centers, and kindergartens were dedicated to these dates.
As a rule, in October, the mobilizers of the Women Support Centers of Kutaisi, Khoni, Tskaltubo, Senaki, Poti, Terjola, Lanchkhuti, Ozurgeti, Khurcha / Koki (Zugdidi municipality) held 27 informational meetings.
The meetings in the villages were particularly interesting. The participants noted: “It is important for us to know that at least one day the whole world talks about the problems and needs of rural women.”
Khoni Women Support Center and “Caritas Georgia” held a charity campaign in Khoni in support of a socially unprotected family, which is also a victim of violence. Clothes an shoes were collected. A victim of violence was offered to use free services of the Fund "Sukhumi" - legal advice and psycho-rehabilitation.