AIC MEXICO - 2005 JEAN DELVA PRIZE

« Corresponsabilidad social por un mundo sin violencia contra las mujeres » - Promoting women empowerment amongst volunteers and beneficiaries of AIC projects to fight against violence towards women.

Activities
Mainly intended for women, aim at self-promoting, development, knowledge of their rights, and training them to eradicate violence situations and to allow them to have access to justice in equity conditions. That is why the project will try to meet different public and private institutions, and will interact in rural areas and communities in which AIC is active to promote co-responsibility in front of the problem of violence towards women.

Specific activities of the project
- Workshops and training for women about women’s rights, self-esteem, effective communica-tion, conflict resolution, participative leadership to promote female leadership in communities
- Workshops for men about masculinity, responsible paternity, love without violence.
- Follow-up of particular cases of women victims of violence detected during activities of the project.
- Elaborating didactic material to favor multiplying effects of the project with the different target groups.

Target Groups:
deprived women and men, AIC volunteers, young couples, Vincentian Marian Youth, from San Luís Potosí city in Mexico

Duration: from November 2005 till October 2007

Granted amount : € 865,00