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.
Family life is the daily work of two people to achieve harmony in relationships. How to build a harmonious relationship in the family - psychological counseling meetings with women took place in the Women Support Centers of Kutaisi, Khoni, Tskaltubo, Poti, Senaki and Khurcha / Koki (Zugdidi Municipality).
Psychologist's advice:
Relations should be built on the following principles: To be able to listen to each other. Always try to talk about what happened to you for the day. Also ask the children. Do not quarrel over trifles. Do not take out all the problems on the show. Often hug each other. Make it a tradition to relax with the whole family on weekends and on vacation. This brings you even closer together and helps build a harmonious relationship.
In addition to the main topic, participants received information about the International Campaign "16 active days against gender-based violence".
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
The main topic of the psychological group meetings was the talks on "How to build a harmonious relationship in the family" and information about the International Campaign "16 active days against gender-based violence".
Understanding, respect, attention are the basic values of each family. Listening to your partner, and meeting his desires, you will get a strong family and relationships based on trust and love - such was the advice of a psychologist after active discussion.
In November, 9 psychological counseling meetings were held in Kutaisi in places of compact settlement of IDPs (63 participants), and 3 individual consultations were held on crises in family relationships.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
The information and mobilization meetings in November were devoted to the topic of violence, and a special emphasis was placed on the International Campaign "16 active days against gender-based violence".
3 meetings were held in Kutaisi and 6 in the municipalities of Tskaltubo, Khoni, Poti, Zugdidi and Senaki. As in the past months, mobilizers of Women Support Centers conducted 33 mobilization meetings in cities and villages, in collective centers of IDPs
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
- 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)
At the initiative of Khurcha / Koki Women Support Center (Zugdidi Municipality), a humanitarian action took place in the village - clothes, shoes and family belongings were handed out to socially unprotected and large families.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
Most television stations are politicized, and the topic of violence is not a priority for them.
- The mass media resource is not used in the prevention of violence. Journalists need special trainings to present truthful information to the society, - such opinions were expressed by young participants in the workshops in Poti, Khoni, Ganmukhuri (Zugdidi municipality).
They noted that in social networks, in the Internet space there are only negative information and it is necessary to spread positive examples that will reduce aggression in the society.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
“With knowledge against violence” is the title of a small project implemented by the Women Support Centre in Tskhaltubo.
Information meetings in administrative units of Tskhaltubo Municipality and with representatives of local self-government on raising the role of self-government in prevention of violence against women and assistance to victims were carried out within the framework of the project. Participants of the meetings got information on the work of Fund “Sukhumi”, and specifically on the activities of the Women Support Centre. They were also given leaflets.
The final training for local government representatives was conducted on the 5th of December in the Assembly Hall of the Mayor’s office of Tskhaltubo. Participants of the training elaborated recommendations and proposals, which were realized in different villages. A short video about the training was prepared and transmitted on air of the TV company “Rioni”.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
The complex of the victim. The meeting discussed this topic. In Kutaisi, 9 collective information-consultative meetings with a psychologist and 4 individual consultations were held in the collective centers of IDPs. There were 63 beneficiaries.
At the meetings, issues related to the victim's condition - reasons, psychosomatics - were considered. It was noted that this state leads to self-destruction. Anyone who feels himself a victim of circumstances releases himself from responsibility for his role in the situation. This is camouflage cover of cowardice, servility and inferiority complex.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
Kutaisi, Khoni, Senaki, Poti, Tskaltubo, Khurcha (Zugdidi municipality) are the places where legal information and consultation meetings were held. The meetings talked about the problem of domestic violence and violence against women, the legal side of the problem, support and protection issues. In addition, the participants got acquainted with the package of adopted changes related to the Istanbul Convention. At individual meetings, other issues were considered: property rights and duties, divorce.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
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)