As a part of the United Nations (UN) 16-day consciousness marketing campaign in opposition to gender-based violence, the Lebanese Democratic Girls’s Gathering (RDFL) organized a handicraft exhibition.
“We normally set up a couple of exercise in the course of the 16-day activism, however this 12 months, we organized a handicraft exhibition as a result of unhealthy financial situations. Girls and ladies attending our programs on making handicrafts displayed their works on the exhibition,” said the RDFL coordinator Rafqa Bou Younes.
The exhibition aimed to empower girls who’ve fallen sufferer to violence by way of the Financial Empowerment Program, to allow them to achieve financial independence that may permit them to guard themselves from all types of violence.
Bou Younes additionally shared tales of the RDFL’s one-month handicraft course and the way two girls managed to begin their very own companies by way of the data they obtained.
Based in 1976 as a feminist and secular NGO, the RDFL is without doubt one of the oldest volunteer-based organizations in Lebanon. It advocates for the rights of ladies and ladies, and for the eradication of gender-based violence and discrimination.
The NGO is headquartered in Adliya, Beirut, and has a number of facilities throughout Lebanon, together with Zouk Mikael, Baalbeck, and Tripoli, the place it receives studies of any case of violence and presents psycho-social and authorized help.
Its hotline 71 500 808 operates 24/7 and is confidential and free.
Gender-based violence is an ongoing crime that continues to plague Lebanon. Based on a research carried out by ABAAD, 6 out of 10 girls within the nation don’t report sexual abuse. Moreover, final weekend girls took to the streets to demand harsher punishments for sexual abuse.
