The Arrecife City Council, through the Department of Equality, has organized the awareness and prevention campaign against gender violence #UNDERSTANDIT: THIS IS ALSO VIOLENCE, for a municipality free of sexist violence, they announce.
This proposal arises "in response to the results of the analysis of the social reality of the Compulsory Secondary Education centers of the municipality, which was carried out by the Community Social Services in 2022" and which reflected, among others, "the presence of sexist behaviors and pornography consumption in students, violence and lack of educational skills in the family and the need for teacher training," they clarify.
This campaign is aimed at "the entire educational community of the municipality (1st year high school students, teachers and families), with the objective of raising awareness and preventing cyberviolence in relationships between adolescent couples or ex-couples," they emphasize. The campaign, which begins "the week of April 18 with training for adolescents, has been financed with funds from the State Pact against Gender Violence," they report.
Next week will also begin "training for teachers and families and Detection and cyberviolence in relationships between couples or ex-couples in young people and adolescents," a talk given by Tibisay Peñate Molina, an expert trainer in gender violence, will take place next Wednesday, April 26 at the Arrecife Civic Center, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
"A Masterclass will be held, training for teachers and families, and even a documentary video will be shown"
At the closing of the campaign, which will be open to the general public, the Masterclass "Sexist Cyberviolence in Video Games" will be given by Nira Santana, an expert in video game design and gender violence. It will take place on Friday, May 19, at 5:00 p.m., at the Arrecife Civic Center.
Finally, that same day "a documentary video of the intervention process carried out in the municipality's institutes will be shown, whose main protagonist will be the students who have participated in the campaign," they anticipate.
