The Provincial Directorate of the Ministry of Education in Melilla and the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women of the Government Delegation in Melilla are going to carry out a training project on equality for the cloisters of educational centers in the city.
The Head of Unit, Laura Segura, in an interview given to Onda Cero, has announced this initiative, ‘Claustros que coeducan’. “We were very clear that we had to train the cloisters, that is, not only those responsible for Equality have to carry this baton of work in Equality, but all the teachers have to join and, therefore, we are going to train all the cloisters of Melilla,” he explained.
As he explained, the training, which will be done by the cloisters on a voluntary basis, will take place on June 24, 25, 26 and 27, in four sessions, and all the cloisters of the city will be trained in gender violence and in education in Equality.
Laura Segura has announced that the doctor and university professor Miguel Lorente Acosta will participate in this training. “She is one of the great experts in our country and at a European level on violence against women”, she has highlighted and recalled that she was Government Delegate against Gender Violence. “I think it’s a very important experience for the centers,” he said.
Equal education
Segura has made it clear that “we work closely with the Provincial Directorate in different ways, training so that teachers have all the strategy to detect situations of violence, but also to know how to accompany those people who may be suffering violence, both students in the centers and students as they are suffering in their own homes, boys and girls, or companions of the center.”
She has also referred to the Master Plan and the talks on the prevention of gender violence and information on the resources given to the students from the Unit that she directs and that is given to all the rooms of the ESO in Melilla. In parallel, he recalled, activities such as the contest held every year by the Government Delegation on Equality on the occasion of November 25 are carried out.
The Head of the Unit also referred to the initiative of the ‘violet suitcases’ that since the beginning of the course “are traveling center to center around the city”.
“The Unit made available to the centers two suitcases, one for Primary and one for Secondary, with 60 copies each and each center has a suitcase for two weeks and they are working both from the libraries, as the tutorials or the coexistence classrooms,” he explained. This initiative allows us to make readings in Equality, the prevention of violence against women and also to address diversity.
Awareness
During the radio interview, Segura asked about other initiatives that, from the Unit, are being carried out with organizations and entities of the city, such as the training given at the Food Bank or the Temporary Immigrant Stay Center (CETI).
The Head of the Unit explained that, in addition to the tasks of monitoring cases of violence against women that take place in our city and coordination, there are also awareness-raising activities, which go much further than disseminating the campaigns of the Ministry of Equality.
“We work to raise awareness among society and all administrations, but also organizations, entities that work locally, and even private companies,” he explained.
In this context, Segura has referred to the training given at the Food Bank, “which is working with many associations in our city, it is a space for detecting violence against women and, in addition, it has promoted its own Equality Plan”.
“The Food Bank called us and gave a training session on gender violence to all associations that work directly with the Bank and the staff of the Food Bank itself,” he said. A very productive training, he has apostilled, while ensuring that the collaboration with this entity will continue and more training sessions will be carried out.
Regarding the CETI, he explained that a protocol on violence against women was promoted from the Ministry of Inclusion together with UNHCR, and, although the CETI and all the CIEs have their protocols, “it was a centralized protocol, where intense work has been done to train all the CETI personnel”, while, with this initiative carried out by Segura, work is being done on the training of men residing in the CETI. In addition, he has announced that this month the training will also be done with the adolescent boys of the center.