Sanxenxo, October 9, 2024.- The deputy delegate of the Government in Pontevedra, Abel Losada, and the head of the Violence on Women Unit of the Subdelegation of the Government in Pontevedra, María José Rodríguez, delivered today the travelling suitcase against gender violence (“MAVI”) to the City of Sanxenxo. 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.
Both were received in the town hall by its mayor, Telmo Martín, whom they thanked for the reception of this project “based on the collaboration and involvement of the municipalities of the province”. No act was also present to the Councilor for Social Welfare of the City of Sanxenxo, Paz Lago.
Abel Losada recalled that “after 15 months we have just had another alleged machista murder in this province,” which is why he appealed for the cooperation of all institutions and society as a whole “in the fight against this scourge” and “in the support of women under threat.” Thus, he stressed the need to promote actions such as the MAVI, which 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 returns to the town hall of Sanxenxo its resort for the province. The others have already stopped in seventeen 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.