Women’s programme (PMD), City of Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona)
CAID — Women’s Care and Information Centre
What?
In February 2017 we started the first Dones Mentores mentoring project in L’ Hospitalet de Llobregat, a municipality (population: 260.000 inhabitants) within the Barcelona metropolitan area. We implemented a project for the Women’s Care and Information Center (CAID) with a driving group of women mentors. This ongoing project has two objectives: to recognize the value of the experience acquired by women who had gone through CAID, and to strengthen the civil society of the city by creating a large and diverse group of mentors. We seek to connect and train women with gender sensitivity, not just survivors.
In 2024, once the initial objectives have been met, we have moved from the pilot project phase to being a consolidated program within the CAID action.
Why?
From victim to survivor. From survivor to mentor.
The CAID of L’ Hospitalet is a pioneering center in Spain in the field of women’s care, with almost 40 years of experience. In 2017 they decided to innovate with Dones Mentores: with a transversal approach, we created support networks between women, convinced that no one can better understand a woman who suffers sexist violence than a woman who has gone through the same life experience. Support for survivors was designed as one more step in the processes of overcoming violence; the gaze of other women who have not gone through these situations, but have this sensitivity, helps avoiding stigmas and labelling and creating mixed networks that offer the maximum diversity of profiles; all women are mentors and equals.
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