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Prevention of Violence against Women and Children (PVWC) aims to provide services
through crisis intervention and counselling to women and children facing violence
in their immediate environment. This programme also works with those who face problems
due to their sexual orientation, their disability and their occupation.
The Programme achieves this by working with slum communities forming empowered women’s
groups. We also collaborate and network with the police and the legal system to
prevent, report and address violence
IMPACTS
- 7,48,000 lakh people reached through our work in the community and via campaigns
to educate them on violence as a human rights issue
- 216 youth volunteers have been trained on issues on gender and sexuality and have
been participating in campaigns by propagating to make violence against women and
have been participating in campaigns by propagating to make violence a serious public
concern.
- 105 SNEHA Sanginis have been trained in crisis intervention and counseling in the
community
- 514 women crisis intervention and offered counseling to
- 52 cases Family counseling helped to resolve inter family conflicts and to negotiate
for a violence free life for the woman
- 6 out of 11 cases under PWDVA Act have received protection orders.
- The Women’s OPDi is s a joint initiative of the Forensic Department and Psychiatric
Department of Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and Hospital and Society
for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA). The OPD offers multi-disciplinary
crisis intervention and supportive counselling services to women and children facing
violence in the absence of such essential services, not provided by the public hospital
CASE STORY - A voice from a client
Anamika came to the SNEHA crisis centre in April ’2011 brutally beaten up seeking
redress and medical help for the domestic violence being inflicted upon her and
her 3 school going daughters by her alcoholic husband. We got her treated her at
Sion hospital.Her husband Raja wouldn’t cooperate with any kind of counseling intervention.
Anamika and her children had found recourse at her father’s home but it was difficult
him to support them indefinitely since he was a daily wage labourer. The situation
called for legal intervention, so SNEHA (a recognized service provider) filed a
case under the PWDV Act in Thane court with some difficulty since the case was the
first of its kind to be filed by a service provider. After the first date of hearing
Raja approached us asking to reconcile. Knowing his attitude we agreed on the consent
terms but insisted that the same be decreed by the court for legal sanction. Raja
agreed and signed the consent terms. On SNEHA’s persuasion both the parties met
at court on a given date date and a court settlement was obtained via mediation
in August 2011.Anamika says “I was hesitant to approach SNEHA but I think I took
the right decision. Today I am having a rightful existence in my house. I don’t
get humiliated.”
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