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.
- How the problem of violence in the media is covered, how information is provided to the society about the facts of violence, and how much it serves the prevention of violence - discussions were held on these issues with women's groups in Kutaisi, Senaki, Tskaltubo. Workshops were organized by Women Support Centers.
The participants noted that the media are mainly interested in such facts when the murder has already occurred, when nothing can be improved.
According to the participants, media is one of the serious tools in the prevention of violence, and this tool should be used more effectively.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
- There are different opinions on the issue of the migration of women in society. For the sake of the majority, a woman should not leave, she should not leave her children. And they say little about the fact that a woman makes such a choice because of her family and children.
- When there are conflicts in a family, migration is often the best way out. Therefore, it is important that society has the right attitude towards the migration of women. If after the woman leaves the conflict starts, it is not only her fault, but also the other members of the family.
Such considerations were recorded at workshops with women's groups at the Women Support Centers of Poti, Senaki and Kutaisi
Who knows how to understand self-esteem, how well we know ourselves, what is the connection between self-esteem and violence. Workshops that were held with women's groups in Tskaltubo, Khoni and Poti Support Centers were devoted to the discussion of this issue.
Live stories were heard at the meetings. It was shown that low self-esteem often hinders women. In the opinion of the participants, incorrect self-esteem is the cause of the development of conflicts, therefore conflict management is possible only with the help of adequate self-evaluation.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
Working with couples is a new component in frames of the fund “Sukhumi” project - "Strengthening the Women's Rights in Western Georgia".
In order to prevent violence, at the first stage we are working with crisis families who have the will, to change the situation and overcome the crisis. With such families, a psychologist and conflictologist work together. If necessary, a lawyer is included.
Three meetings have already been held. All three cases differ from each other in complexity. The common thing about them is that women try to manage the conflict and men are also included in the process. The psychologist will continue to work in on-line mode.
For each family, an individual schedule is developed, which will help them to overcome crisis situations.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
International Day of Girls and International Day of Rural Women-in this connection, conversations took place at the mobilization meetings in October. There were also other issues that interested the meeting participants - the prevention of violence, local government programs, advocacy of social problems.
Mobilizers of the Women Support Centers of the fund “Sukhumi” held 33 meetings in the cities and villages of the municipalities of Kutaisi, Tskaltubo, Khoni, Senaki, Poti, Zugdidi.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
Women's solidarity - this was the topic of psychological consultative meetings in Kutaisi, in places where IDPs compactly reside. Totally 12 group and 3 individual meetings were held - 88 women aged from 21 to 66 were attended.
All meetings were held in different ways. Women told real stories and themselves made the conclusion that solidarity is necessary - women support to each other. This is an important factor in the process of preventing violence.
On February 1, at the office of the Fund "Sukhumi", mobilizers of Women Support Centers gathered, who will work on the projects. The participants discussed the directions of the small grant competition and the projects that should be implemented this year.
There are already 11 project ideas. Five projects have been selected for financing, which will be implemented in the municipalities of Tskaltubo, Khoni, Senaki, Poti and Zugdidi.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
Senaki Women Support Center completed the work on the project: “Dramatization of women’s rights”, which was dedicated to International campaign “16 active days against gender-based violence”. The project was implemented in the villages: Teklati, Nosiri and Akhalsopeli. This was preceded by meetings with representatives of rural authorities and majoritarian candidates. And of course, working with the director and actors who have staged scenes on domestic violence and violence against women. After the presentations, there were active discussions. Everything, said in the language of the theater was very impressionable, understandable and effective.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
- With a difficult rhythm of life, we are becoming different as we were before. That's where our marriage partner comes to the rescue. With him it is possible to be yourself. The man in the family has a wife and children. And the woman in the family has a husband and children. Children grow and create their own families. But our spouse is always with us. We are not alone in the marriage. This is the meaning of family happiness, in which there is no room for violence ...
The women listened to the psychologist with interest in Khurcha / Koki Women Support Center.
A psychological group meeting on the theme of family happiness took place in Koki (Zugdidi municipality), where 10 beneficiaries from 21 to 60 years were present.