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The Subdelegation of the Government takes the traveler’s suitcase against gender violence to the City of A Lama

20/09/2024
The Subdelegation of the Government takes the traveler’s suitcase against gender violence to the City of A Lama

Equipped with more than a dozen feminist-themed books, she will remain in the city hall for three months. The head of the Violence Unit on Women of the Government Subdelegation, María José Rodríguez, gave the suitcase to the mayor, David Carrera

The head of the Violence against Women Unit of the Government Subdelegation in Pontevedra, María José Rodríguez, delivered today the travelling suitcase against gender violence (“MAVI”) to the City Council of the Lama. This awareness project is an initiative promoted by the Violence against Women Unit of the Subdelegation and aims to promote equality and raise awareness of the need to make further progress in the fight against male violence.
The head of the Unit was received at the town hall by its mayor, David Carrera, whom she thanked for the reception of this project “based on the collaboration and involvement of the municipalities of the province”. The director of the municipal Women’s Information Center (CIM), Adriana Fontaíña, and the director of CEIP A Lama, Rafael Sánchez, were also present.
As María José Rodríguez explained, this initiative, which was born precisely in the Penitentiary Center of the Lama, pursues five objectives: to bring the neighborhood closer to reading on issues of feminism, violence against women, empowerment or self-esteem, etc. ; promote critical thinking about gender roles and stereotypes; promote reading as a tool for equality; raise awareness about gender violence; and promote the reading of texts written by women, so that society has female references in the field of culture.
With five active travel bags, one of them now reclaims the town hall of the Lama in its resort for the province. The others have already stopped in sixteen municipalities of Pontevedra, in addition to the Penitentiary Center of the Lama and the Social Insertion Center Carmen Avendaño of Vigo.
The suitcase, which contains more than a dozen books written by women, will remain in the town hall for three months, after which it will continue its journey through other municipalities, shelters, associations of women victims of gender violence, libraries, women’s information centres or social services of the province that request it.