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The Department of Equality of the City of Cartagena has presented this Friday February 9 the new campaign against gender violence 'If you feel drowned is not love' on the occasion of Valentine's Day.
This campaign is launched in collaboration with the Culture and Youth areas of the City Council, the Popular University, the Galactyco Collective and the Restaicia-T association.
With the dissemination of this message, the City Council seeks to promote "effective equality between men and women and the prevention of gender violence," explained the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón.
This campaign is going to be presented in the secondary education centers in order to approach the young people and that they can identify the gender roles and the macho behaviors.
The mayor insisted on the importance of young people for the eradication of gender violence and the perpetuation of sexist roles.
"We have to be able to get young people to identify the attitudes, prejudices and stereotyped behaviors that can evolve into sexist and submissive behavior," said Ana Belén Castejón.
This campaign also seeks to inform young people about the existence of a care and prevention service for this type of situation, such as the Specialized Care Centers for Women Victims of Gender Violence (CAVI).
'THE EGALITARIAN MAN'
In addition to this campaign on the occasion of Valentine's Day, the Department of Equality of the City of Cartagena has launched a program aimed at young people, 'El hombre igualitario'.
The project will be developed together with the Reinicia-T association and will be offered to secondary education centers with the objective of working with men.
"For the Department is key to the role of men in the fight against gender violence and we need them to continue advancing in this task," said the mayor.
The Consistory Cartagena, also, will create a specific area within the Department of Equality for the development of this campaign, as announced Castejón.
The educational centers that request it will be able to receive, during the week of February 14, posters of this campaign with the slogan "Do you dare to dream?".
These designs can also be seen in different parts of the municipality in street furniture and bracelets that will be distributed throughout the city.
SENSITIZATION SESSIONS
In addition to the workshops and the support given from the CAVI, during 2017, 124 sessions were held in the municipality of Cartagena in institutes on gender violence and sensitization, attended by a total of 2,040 students.
According to data offered by the mayor of Cartagena, this program was offered to 26 secondary schools in the town, of which 13 requested it, although only 9 could be attended.
A total of 220 groups of the municipality also requested this service from the City Council.
It was possible to attend 76 of them.
To avoid leaving unattended centers, said Ana Belen Castejon, the Department of Equality has begun to work this year from the first quarter.
The CAVI, in addition, attended this year to more girls victims of gender violence.
The mayor pointed out the greater diffusion of these campaigns from the City Council as a result of this rebound.
Also the meetings of advice and guidance to teachers by the professional team of the CAVI has increased in this last year, which affects the improvement of the attention of the teaching staff when intervening when a case of gender violence is detected in the classrooms
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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