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.
In October, the mobilizers of Women Support Centers met with representatives of local state structures and self-government - members of Sakrebulo, with the head of Sakrebulo apparatus, with employees of different services, with managers of rural territorial units.
The purpose of these meetings is to familiarize themselves with social and health programs, and then distribute them at mobilization meetings, so that more people are informed about local programs and able to use them to their own needs, to solve various problems.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
Mobilizers of Women's Support Centers, traditionally, met the representatives of local government in September. Some of them met with the members of Sakrebulo, others - with the chief of the staff, with the employees of the social service and the health service, as well as with the heads of the rural administrative units.
At the meetings they get acquainted with social programs and health programs. Then the received information is distributed at the mobilization meetings, so that more people are informed about this.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
On July 1 in Tskaltubo, in the collective center "Medea" there was held psychological consultation. The meeting was attended only by women IDPs. The theme was chosen on their own initiative - violence against children and its negative results on the behavior of children and psycho-emotional sphere.
On July 8 and 13 consultations were held in Women's Support Centres of Khoni and Poti. Among the participants there were young and older women, IDPs and local. Subject of consultations - the negative impact of domestic violence on young children and adolescents and prevention of violence against children.
The women listened with great interest the conversation of psychologist, gave examples from their experience. At the end of the meeting, participants expressed their gratitude regarding consultations and noted that the discussed topic and received recommendations for them are required and useful.
Psychologist of the fund “Sukhumi” conducted consultations in the Women Support Centers of Khoni and Tskaltubo, also in one of the collective centers of Poti. There were 22 women among the participants and 7 of them were new, who received information about our organization, free legal and psychological consultations.
The topics of conversation were: reasons of violence, effective methods of prevention, situation of micro-socium, assertive methodology of regulating problems, psychology of decision making.
Women heard all topics with interest, as according to them it is very useful for them to use received advices in practice.
On April 1, 4, 5 in WSCs of Khoni, Tskaltubo, poti there were held psychological meetings.
Consultations in Khoni and Poti were held according planned topic: “Development of gender roles for prevention of violence against women”. Beneficiaries received information about how gender roles are defined, at what age are they formed, and what should be changed to balance the gender roles in the family.
In Tskhaltubo there were also held 2 individual consultation meetings on different issues.
In WSCs of Kutaisi, Senaki, Khurcha (Zugdidi Municipality) there were held group psychological meetings. The main topic of the meetings was women solidarity.
Principles of women friendship are the same as when creating any close relations: honesty, openness, discussion of problems, sympathy and respect, the ability to hear each other. Also there were held individual consultations on the problems of psychological violence in the family. Women have listened carefully to the psychologist of the fund "Sukhumi".