The Coordination Unit against Violence Against Women of the Government Delegation in Melilla will launch the second edition of the Children and Youth Competition for Equality and Against Gender Violence aimed at students from all educational stages and from all educational centers in Melilla.
As explained by the Head of the Unit, Laura Segura, this contest aims to bring equality and the prevention of gender violence to young people and to do so in their language. “The contest’s ultimate goal is to promote equality between women and men and prevent violence against women,” she said.
“We launched this prevention and awareness campaign against gender violence for educational centers, with which we intend to bring equality and the prevention of gender violence to young people and do so in their language and from here we encourage participation,” he said.
“Coeducation, from very early ages, is key to eradicating violence against women and to having effective and real equality,” said Segura, who stressed the importance of equality being addressed in classrooms in Melilla. “Educational centers are basic places from which inequality can be reversed,” he added, noting that this initiative “we want to contribute with this activity to the promotion of equality and to the prevention and fight against gender violence.”
“We want to make visible, sensitize and raise awareness among students in our city about the reality of gender violence that exists in Melilla and throughout the world and that has its origin in inequality between men and women,” he said.
Segura has advanced that it seeks to increase awareness and awareness of the importance of supporting victims and in breaking the silence before any evidence or suspicion of gender violence. “The weight of the denunciations or the verbalization of the situations of violence cannot fall only on the victims, the whole society must act to eradicate machista violence,” he said.
The Head of the Unit, in this regard, has recognized the importance of awareness campaigns for all age groups and for society in general, but has stressed the need to co-educate the girls, boys and young people of today “to achieve tomorrow a Melilla without machismo and without violence”.
2 categories and 3 modalities
As explained by Segura, to carry out this contest, the Provincial Directorate of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD), through the Educational Programs Unit (UPE), has collaborated.
The work can be carried out by reflecting on various issues related to Equality and Gender Violence on issues such as the detection of violence against women in the environment or in social networks and new technologies; actions to eliminate violence against women in society; the prevention of gender violence, sexism and inequality; the promotion of relations based on gender equality and respect; promoting support networks in the fight against violence against women...
“The messages can be directed both to the victim of gender violence and to the people around them so that they break with the silence and can emerge from the violence,” he said.
To this end, two categories for participation have been established. One for Primary and Special Education and a second for Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, Vocational Training, Adult Education Center and Special Regime Teachings.
In Primary and Special Education it will be possible to participate with three modalities: Comic, Drawing and Letter or email; while in the second category, the modalities are Comic, Drawing and Letter, email or WhatsApp conversation.
The Government Delegation has published the bases of the contest as well as the deadline for submission and each school will send the works to the Government Delegation in Melilla.
The works will be presented to the Jury anonymously and the jury’s decision will be communicated, around November 25, to the educational centers whose students are awarded.
As for the prizes. Each modality will have a first, second and third prize, being a total of 18 prizes that will be awarded, and that will consist of a tablet and diploma.