The Government delegate in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana, and the Government subdelegate in Las Palmas, Teresa Mayans, today presented the awareness campaign against gender violence that the Government Delegation launches in the capital of Gran Canaria in collaboration with the company Guaguas Municipal de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Through this campaign, it will be dressed with information on public resources against gender violence outside two guaguas of many other public transport lines of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria very frequented by users.
In the presentation, which took place in the Santa Catalina Park of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, also participated the councilman delegate of the Mobility and Employment Area of the City of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and president of the Board of Directors of Municipal Guaguas, José Eduardo Ramírez, the councilwoman and Equality, Diversity and Citizen Participation, Betsaida González and the general director of Municipal Guaguas, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez.
“With this initiative we want to go out on the street, to be more present with the necessary message that we all have to be committed in the fight against gender violence. That is a fight that we must continue to fight as a society. And that awareness has to come out of the buildings of the institutions in order to reach the citizens in a simpler way,” says Anselmo Pestana.
“That is why we have thought about this campaign, which will not only be visible to the people who use public transport in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, but will also be able to see the users of private vehicles during their journeys, in waiting times at traffic lights, for example. It will be a month in which the message of the Government of Spain against gender violence will go through the streets of the capital of Gran Canaria”, he adds.
For her part, the Councilor for Equality, Diversity and Citizen Participation, Betsaida González, added that “this type of campaigns are fundamental to raise awareness among citizens that we are all responsible in the fight against male violence, a violence that has claimed the lives of 40 women in Spain. As a society we have to give a clear and forceful response to end this type of violence.”
From this past Monday, November 18 and for 30 days, the image of the campaign can already be seen on the municipal bus lines 21 (Puerto / Escaleritas / La Feria / Hospital Dr. Negrín / Santa Catalina) and 44 (Santa Catalina – Isla Perdida).