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.
Women Support Centers of Poti, Kutaisi, Khoni and Khurcha (Zugdidi Municipality) organized regular psychological group information and consultative meetings.
For the talks, an actual topic was proposed - the victim's complex, the reasons and how to get rid of the violence in the family.
As noted, there are people who, even under very favorable circumstances of life, feel unhappy. It would seem that they all have: family, children, and work, but they constantly complain about life. There are people who seem to be attracting trouble to themselves. The victim complex unites all these people. The psychologist conducted important work with the participants in order to overcome the victim's complex.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
What is the connection between domestic conflicts, the mentality and personal values, how it is possible to manage such conflicts - workshops on women's groups in Kutaisi, Tskaltubo and Senaki were held on this topic.
The participants formulated what for them is an identity, and joined in the discussion by discussing their stories.
- I live in the village. I think that I have a rich family - we have a lot of cows and chickens on the farm. We have enough food. This is very valuable for me. I have three sons. If the daughter-in-law declares all this is not worth for her, and she is not interested in this, the conflict is inevitable.
- I do not like when a woman smokes. In my family we have other values. If someone violates this mentality, naturally, conflicts will arise.
These were the opinions of participants in the workshops. They believe that if we want to avoid conflicts, we must respect the values of other people.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
On the 3rd and 4th of October, the Women's Support Centers of Tskaltubo and Senaki organized psychological group information and consultation meetings.
Meetings were held on the current topic - victim, victim complex, reasons, psycho-somatics, and how to get rid of - to prevent domestic violence.
The victim complex means that a person has certain personal characteristics, through which he finds himself in the position of the Sacrifice and unconsciously attracts troubles and tyrants. They accuse other people of their misfortunes and do not see their role in them. Often such women sacrifice themselves to children, to their husband, family, parents. At the same time, they put their interests on the last place: "I'll do it somehow," "I do not need anything," "The main thing is that you should be all right"...
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
On September 29-30 and October 1 in Kobuleti there was held a training for mobilizers of WSCs. The training was actively attended by 11 mobilizers of 6 centers of the fund “Sukhumi”. During three days they worked on elaboration of the projects and discussed several important issues: writing projects, formulation of goals, identification of problem and work with applications, financial management of the project, planning and allocation of project budget.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
In September, 9 group psychological meetings and 3 individual consultations were held in Kutaisi, in places of compact resettlement of IDPs from Abkhazia. The work went on the topic - assertive behavior, communication without coercion or non-violent communication.
Participants got acquainted with assertive rules of communication without aggression, worked on a card of assertive behavior.
Sometimes human tactlessness goes all the limits. It's difficult to protect yourself from questions like: "How much do you earn?", "When will you marry?", "Are not you going to beat your husband's lover?" -, but to learn to keep self-control is in everyone's strength. When you are asked an incorrect question, remember: do not answer it just because someone had the impudence to ask it. The psychologist of the Fund "Sukhumi" gave useful advice to the participants of the meetings.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
The mobilization meetings of September were devoted to the International Day of Peace and the International Campaign WAVE #stepup "Support and protection of women victims of violence and their children".
The Women's Support Centers of the fund “Sukhumi” held 33 meetings in the municipalities of Kutaisi, Tskaltubo, Khoni, Senaki, Poti and Zugdidi, not only in the cities, but also in the villages (Ternali, Kukhi, Nakhakhulevi, Akhalsopeli, Khorshi, Khurcha, Koki, Kakhati).
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
Within the framework of the project "Strengthening Women's Rights in Western Georgia", regular legal information and consultation meetings were held in all six Women Support Centers of the Fund "Sukhumi". Those who gathered in Kutaisi, Khoni, Khurcha (Zugdidi municipality), Senaki, Tskaltubo and Poti, raised questions of interest to them and received competent answers.
Individual consultations were held at the meetings, a woman of a risk group was identified.
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)
- It is impossible to manage conflicts if a person does not have a correct self-assessment. I'm a person of conflict. Now I realized that the reason is my misconception about myself. It is necessary to look at your opportunities realistically. This is a very good experience, it will help me in dealing with people and managing conflicts.
- In case of high self-esteem, it is possible to become rapist, and vice versa, with a lower self-esteem, it is more likely to become a victim. It is necessary to better study yourself, this will allow in the formation of a correct self-assessment.
These were the views of young people, shown during the discussion of the subject of self-evaluation in WSCs of Kutaisi, Senaki and Koki (Zugdidi municipality).
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
In the Women's Support Centers of the Fund "Sukhumi" in September, two more scheduled meetings were held with the psychologist – on 13th in Khurcha (Zugdidi municipality) and on 14th in Senaki.
At group information-consultative meetings, the conversation took place on the basis of assertive communication, or communication without coercion. The participants were very interested in this topic. They looked in a new way, from the outside at their behavior with close people. Difficulties with the use of assertiveness are due to the fact that the skills of such behavior require serious preparation and practice, since for the majority of people, other styles of communication are more common: passive, aggressive, manipulative. Psychologist's advice helped participants in the meetings, to see the specifics and advantage of assertive communication.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)