The Head of the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women of the Delegation of the Government in Melilla, Laura Segura, has valued the work that is done from the educational centers of our city through the project of the Violets Suitcases, launched from this Delegation and that has been developed since 2019, “putting at the disposal of the students coeducational readings for equality, the eradication of gender violence and freedom.”
The Head of the Unit, on the occasion of the commemoration, today, of the Day of the Book, explained that, through this project, two violet suitcases with about 60 children's and youth books each have been made available to the centers for another year.
One of the suitcases has been used for Secondary and Baccalaureate schools, while the other for Primary and Infant Education schools. Maletas, said Segura, “with which equality is promoted, gender stereotypes are broken and male violence is prevented.”
Thus, in collaboration with the Educational Program Unit of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD), “we have distributed the readings by age and level, although we know that these books can be read at any age, and a quadrant was developed so that suitcases can fly through all the centers of Melilla, remaining in each center two weeks,” he said. In this way, “equality is being achieved from center to center, through reading to the students of Melilla”.
“We want, through this initiative, to promote the construction of a more egalitarian and, ultimately, fairer society; and to convey to the youngest people the need to position themselves against discrimination and male violence,” he explained.
“Suitcases with co-educational readings that, through tutorials, library activities, through the people responsible for equality and co-education agents of the different centers, serve to reflect on different contents such as breaking with stereotypes and gender roles, visibility of women, prevention of gender violence, egalitarian relationships, family diversity, egalitarian masculinities, affective and sexual education, emotional education, self-esteem...”, he reported.
In the words of Segura, “we are convinced that Education is the fundamental pillar to achieve the end of gender violence and, therefore, we bet that this selection of readings continues to act as an agent of change and transformation through the values of equality that they contribute”.
It is sought, he added, that boys and girls “achieve a better development without sexist conditions, without gender stereotypes, providing new ways of being and feeling, without preconceived ideas and without conditions that can give rise to inequalities or discrimination both present and future”.
In short, the Head of the Unit welcomed this project “which contributes to the progress towards a society in Equality and free of violence against women”.