The concello de Ames is the new stop of the exhibition 'Amigo, dáte conta', premiered on November 10 as part of the program of events that the Government Delegation carried out on the occasion of the International Day against Gender Violence. This exhibition presents, through informative posters and cartoons, attitudes related to male violence, mainly in the area of the couple, to raise awareness among the newest population.
The government delegate, Pedro Blanco, explained at the inauguration that with the exhibition 'Amigo, dáte conta', they seek to "raise awareness among young people so that they can join the fight against machismo, building an egalitarian, inclusive, fairer society and free of gender violence."
The mayor, Blas García, recalled the threat posed by attitudes that deny gender violence and stressed the importance of such an exhibition reaching the youngest concello in Galicia, “the values that we inculcate today will be those that predominate in the Ames in the future and I want Ames equal and free of gender violence.” For her part, Uxía García, Councilor for Social Welfare and Equality, explained that “the Concello de Ames will always have open doors to initiatives of this type” and thanked the Government Delegation for its involvement in the fight against gender violence with campaigns of this type.
This initiative of the Government of Spain will be throughout the month of February in the Plaza de la Maía de Bertamiráns and consists of six prisms that recreate daily conversations through a language closer to the youth, with informative posters and vignettes that reflect attitudes and realities of male violence, especially in the area of the couple.
The drawings reflect situations and behaviors of contempt, machismo, psychological violence, emotional abuse and obsession. In addition to the cartoons, in the exhibition you can read several sentences with data on violence from the study “The situation of violence against women in adolescence in Spain”, carried out by the Ministry of Equality on a sample of more than 13,000 people aged 14 to 20 years.