Professional counselling for gender-based violence survivors
“The biggest obstacle for me to leave was economic dependency. I didn’t know how to make a new start without money”.
“The biggest obstacle for me to leave was economic dependency. I didn’t know how to make a new start without money”.
The EQUALL program aims to respond to the need for independence of gender-based violence survivors.
The program activities will start in January 2023, in Athens, and the total duration of participation will be 120 hours.
The assessment of the psychological state of the victims, before they testify, implicitly questions their ability to perceive and evaluate what happened to them.
The dominant discourse could no longer present the perpetrators as “monsters”, and speak of “isolated incidents”.
Thank you for your valuable contribution to our common effort to support women experiencing violence.
Over 400 women and 45 men participated in 2021, in the actions to prevent gender-based violence, at the Diotima Center in Thessaloniki.
Over 150 women received legal and psychosocial assistance in 2021, with the help of the Bodossaki Foundation.
The study documents the experiences of migrant and refugee survivors of domestic violence from the police response system.
Our local office in Vathi provides support services to local and refugee women who have suffered gender-based violence.
The seemingly small increase in domestic violence incidents in Greece, in the first month of the pandemic, should not be a cause for complacency.
Tour of the city and its monuments, from above, from a roof garden. The refugees of the Farsi-speaking empowerment group get to know Athens.
The shelters had been protected spaces for the women refugees, where they could attend educational programs.
Providing legal assistance to women who are experiencing or have experienced violence and raising public awareness.
