Project Description and activities
The main objective of the project is to raise awareness of children and young people about respect due to women: mothers, girlfriends, friends, neighbors, and companions…
By this project, all AIC Puerto Rico volunteers commit themselves to promoting this awareness through several initiatives with:
- headmasters of the catholic schools of the 5 elected dioceses;
- persons elected by the schools to deal with the project;- children and young from catholic schools of Puerto Rico;
- Vincentian Family of Puerto Rico, particularly with the Daughters of Charity and the Congregation of the Mission;
- written press: El Nuevo Día, national paper, and El Visitante, catholic paper distributed in all the parishes of the island.

Activities
- Start and visibility activities - Five minutes prayer and reflexion in all schools, on November 21, 2005, from 11:55 to 12 :00;
- Preparing with children and young panels illustrating the struggle against violence towards women, and wearing a violet ribbon in memory of the victims;
- Reading and explanation of AIC manifesto against violence towards women, in schools;§ Publication in written press of articles about activities organized in schools
- Search for partnerships with private instances fighting against violence toward women;
- To lobby on public institutions to include struggle against violence toward women in school programs of all Puerto Rican schools.

Target Groups:children and young from 6 to 17, students in the catholic schools of 5 dioceses of
Puerto- Rico.

Some pictures of the beginning of activities

Duration:: from November 2005 till Mai 2006, with a possible 6 month extension

Granted amount : € 2,000.00