The Deputy Delegate of the Government in Lugo, Isabel Rodríguez, today delivered to “MAVI: the Travelling Suitcase Against Gender Violence” in the Christmas camp of the city of Trabada to continue working for an effective and real equality between men and women through a reading that allows to detect and prevent machista behaviors and attitudes.
The subdelegate presented, together with the mayor of the city, Mayra García, and the Head of the Gender Violence Unit of the Subdelegation, María Luisa Castro, the MAVI suitcase with the aim of combating acts derived from the patriarchal system in all the municipalities of the province.
“We bet and facilitate that the municipalities join in the fight against this structural violence, defending that the public administrations must continue to offer programs that contribute to the awareness of society,” he said, adding that “this is a matter of state and of great social relevance that seriously misses women and girls for the simple fact of seal.”
Isabel Rodríguez highlighted this initiative “which continues to be well received in the municipalities, with a high demand from the MAVI for the work of sensitization that can be done between the neighborhood, and which often causes people to be interested in knowing how to act in case of aggression or machista attitudes.”
Rodríguez stressed that the basis for combating this type of violence is based on education and culture, “that is why it is so important to encourage reading with books that are made available to citizens to work on topics that proliferate critical thinking and rejection of discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as the perpetuation of stereotypes and roles imposed by society.”
These new books are added to those of the suitcases that have already passed through Viveiro, Sarria, Quiroga, Meira and Vilalba, as well as those of the penitentiary centers of Bonxe and Monterroso. There are two suitcases that are currently traveling through the province with the material to work on this subject and that follow the mission of offering a new look at a problem that affects and affects the whole society.
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The suitcase has eleven books of children's and youth literature so that people of all ages can be part of the project, including a diary where they can express their reflections and opinions on the contents and experiences they had through reading.
Among the works that are in the suitcase are titles such as “Insolación”, by Emilia Pardo Bazán; “Maternity Homes S.A. The business of rented wombs” by Laura Nuño; “The land of women” by Sandra Barneda; “Invisible women for medicine” by Carme Valls; or “Disarming masculinity” by Beatriz Ranea, among others.