New methods introduced against domestic violence

Today the Pan American Health Organization in collaboration with the Ministry of health and the Women’s Department opened a two day workshop to introduce care providers to a new method for addressing the problem of domestic violence. It is hoped that the participants will adapt the tools from “In Her Shoes: Living with Domestic Violence” for use in their programmes to help victims. The sessions are being facilitated by PATH, The Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health and the Intercambios Alliance, a regional NGO for the prevention of gender based violence. According to the organisers, the participants’ experience will help them better understand the severe challenges faced by battered women. According to PATH representative Margarita Quintanilla, the methodology has been a success in Latin America.

Margarita Quintanilla, Representative, PATH, Nicaragua
“They did a workshop with a focal group of women and they were asking what do want, what would you like we to do in order to improve people care in terms of women violence. And they said we want something that could touch their heart and it’s what In Her Shoes do. We are not training; In Her Shoes just make people live what women live.”

The workshop, hosted at the Radisson, will conclude on Friday.