{"id":12600,"date":"2020-11-03T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T12:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diotima.org.gr\/?p=12600"},"modified":"2023-02-07T15:32:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T13:32:27","slug":"press-release-diotima-center-now-in-samos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diotima.org.gr\/en\/press-release-diotima-center-now-in-samos\/","title":{"rendered":"Diotima Center now in Samos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201c<\/em>Now you have someone to talk to<em>\u201d<\/em>! This is the title of the campaign currently organized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/diotima.org.gr\/en\/cases\/intervention-against-sexual-and-gender-based-violence-in-urban-areas\/\">Diotima Center in Samos<\/a> aiming to raise awareness about gender-based violence\/ violence against women and inform the local and refugee population about the services offered.<\/p>\n<p>Our campaign aims at informing women who live on the island that they can address and talk to a range of professionals in order to get informed about their rights and receive support.<\/p>\n<p>Our ultimate goal is to empower women in order for them to live without fear, danger, or violence, living the life they deserve!<\/p>\n<p>Diotima Center is a women\u2019s organization, active in the field for more than 30 years, and specializing in issues of gender-based violence. Though based in Athens, since 2015 we have also been working and providing our services in Thessaloniki and Lesvos.<\/p>\n<p>In Samos, we set up our new local office five months ago and since then have started providing full support to survivors of gender-based violence, being funded by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees(UNHCR).<\/p>\n<p>Our local office in Vathy, Samos, and our highly experienced and dedicated team, consisting of a wide variety of experts (psychologists, social workers, lawyers, and interpreters), provide a full range of support services to adult, local women, and\/ or asylum seekers, recognized refugees, as well as men and LGBTQ people who have confronted gender-based violence.<\/p>\n<p>Our services also include reception and needs assessment, psychosocial and legal support, including representation in the court, escort to public services and local agencies, referrals to other services, etc.<\/p>\n<p>We also organize activities aiming at the prevention of gender-based and domestic violence and group meetings to increase awareness about women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, we offer empowerment activities, as well as, educational programs for professionals and executives of organizations about gender-based violence, national and international response protocols, legislation, etc.<\/p>\n<p>We work together to end gender-based violence<\/p>\n<p>We empower women to overcome violence and discrimination<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Samos team, Diotima Center<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">To make an appointment<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Call 6981 760 678(Monday to Friday 10.00-17.00) or<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Send an email to <a href=\"mailto:samos.diotima@gmail.com\">samos.diotima@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our local office in Vathi provides support services to local and refugee women who have suffered gender-based violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":12455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,51],"tags":[1328,592,751,1369,1370,1213],"class_list":["post-12600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ideas-views-news","category-uncategorized","tag-kentro-diotima-en","tag-gender-based-violence","tag-gender-based-violence-gbv-services","tag-samos-en","tag-services","tag-survivors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diotima.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diotima.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diotima.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diotima.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diotima.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12600"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/diotima.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28924,"href":"https:\/\/diotima.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600\/revisions\/28924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diotima.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diotima.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diotima.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diotima.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}