Gender based violence is widespread all over the world and is one of the most recurrent and difficult problems to solve.
We have been working for years in refugee camps in Somalia, particularly in Puntland, carrying out various projects aimed at supporting women.
In the struggle for a free and just world, the Group for Transcultural Relations is willing to fight all kinds of violence, especially gender based violence.
Projects and news
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Provide medical care and psychological support to displaced persons, asylum seekers and victims of gender-based violence, particularly children, in Puntland, Garowe.
To ensure psycho-social support to women and children victims of violence, to improve prevention and intervention services,to support awareness compaigns on GBV issues and Child Protection.
To identify and support vulnerable populations, including children, to prevent gender-based violence.
To ensure that marginalized girls have the opportunity to obtain an education through school. The aim is to enable girls to support themselves and get out of the extreme poverty in which they live.
In the camps for displaced people, womend and children live in serious deprivationa and danger. They are often extremely vulnerable to violence and mistreatment.
To promote change for members of the security forces, regional governments, survivors of human rights violations, and the civilian population.
The GEMMA (Gender-Based Empowerment of Women through a Multiagency Approach) project draws on the WHO’s ecological model of understanding violence and studies showing that violence against women.