Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a day which aims to raise awareness to prevent and eliminate violence cases.
As we know, violence against women continues to be an obstacle to achieving equality, development, peace as well as to the fulfillment of women and girls’ human rights.
For this occasion, WEFOCO worked hand in hand with New Vision, Soroptimist, People Against Poverty - PAPO, and UDPK to organize a forum to bring key stakeholders together to discuss about the issue.
The discussions went around three main topics: (1) Understanding VAW, the different forms and consequenses (2) Identifying VAW in Kenya, Kakamega County and particulary in Shianda: reality and challenges (3) Finding solutions and acting together to eliminate VAW.
Amongst the main stakeholders invited they were the Deputy County Commission, Office County Security representative, Kakamega County Director Gender Office representative, Education and Social Services Deparment, as well as chiefs from different communities.
Participants were very active, discussions were very fruitful and one of the main initiatives taken is to ensure that institutions and civil society work more together. Everyone also agreed that raising awareness on violence against women and gender-based violence at different levels (public places, schools, stakeholder training, etc.) is necessary to tackle the problem of violence.
We join the 16 days of activism and next Wednesday 27th we are organazing a public campaign around Shianda market place now to raise awareness among the public and share with them some of the points discussed during the forum. I will share more! :)
 |
| Opening the forum singing and praying |
 |
| Security Officer sharing about Shianda situation |
 |
| Discussions |
 |
| Elimination of VAW, starts with me! |
 |
| Civil Society-Organizers |
No comments :
Post a Comment