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General information on Women Wellness Center- Safe House Pejë Women's Wellness Center (WWC) is a non-governmental organization founded in Peja, Kosovo in November 1999; In May 2001 is registered as a nongovernmental organization the NGOs according regulation 1999/22. In December 2002 opened the Safe House for women and children victims of domestic violence.
Mission: Protect, support and promote the rights and interests of women and girls throughout Kosovo, regardless of political orientation, religious, educational level, age, sexual orientation or ethnicity, as well as cultivation of understanding, tolerance and spirit of cooperation to achieve complete well-being of women.
In the focus of WWC are four main areas:
• Psycho-social counseling;
• Education and community awareness rising regarding prevention of gender base violence, prevention of the human trafficking and gender equality;
• Shelter for women and children victims of violence and direct support for social reintegration
• Capacity building and networking support.
Women's Wellness Center in its activities includes the four municipalities of the Peja region (Peja, Deçan, Klina Istog).These activities include urban and rural centers of some 300,000 residents. The center provides shelter for women and children victims of domestic violence across Kosovo.
Program for combating gender based violence (GBV)
Program for combating gender based violence (GBV), which has begun developing since 1999, had positively and sustainably influenced in breaking the silence on violence especially in the family. This, besides other things, encouraged people to talk about gender based violence and also raise their awareness of its consequences in family cell, especially children.
In our community there was a common perception that family violence is a fringe phenomenon, insignificant, marginal. But it was not so, because this was an important fundamental family and social problem.
With its work Women's Wellness Center has achieved that the fight against gender based violence to be a very intensely sharp, relevant, open and public issue, almost as an integral part of our work and life. |
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