"Rich and Beautiful" Centre

Project facts

Project promoter:
Women's Rights Center
Project Number:
PL14-0004
Target groups
Victims of intimate-partner violence,
Children
Status:
Completed
Initial project cost:
€58,832
Final project cost:
€58,788
From Norway Grants:
€ 48,981
The project is carried out in:
Miasto Warszawa

Description

The aim of the project is to create a place and a comprehensive support program for women experiencing various forms of discrimination based on gender, particularly domestic and family violence. At the Center women will participate in individual consultations and group workshops designed to help them recover inner strength and fortify consciousness, develop assertiveness and self-presentation, as well as management and financial planning skills, and the ability to effectively negotiate in the labor market. The Wealth and Beauty Center is also a place for self-help activities, self-study, and a space for meeting successful women, including the actual participants in Bank Services and Commodity Exchanges. The activities carried out under the project are addressed to adult women and their children, women from other countries (and their children) living in Warsaw, women with families prone to experiencing the effects of violence and alcohol abuse in the family and children victims and witnesses of domestic and family violence. The project includes the following range of activities: 1. legal advice, 2. psychological counseling, 3 social support, 4. employment skills, 5. creation of the Business Incubator and Work Agency for women coming out of discrimination and violence, 6. workshops and financial counseling, 7. group meetings for children, 8. group meetings for the mothers, and 9. facilitation of the women’s Bank for the Exchange of Services and Commodities.

Summary of project results

The aim of the project was to create a comprehensive support program for women experiencing different forms of discrimination based on gender, particularly domestic and family violence. The activities carried out under the project were addressed to adult women and their children, migrant women (and their children) living in Warsaw, women living in families at risk of violence and alcohol abuse and children victims and witnesses of domestic and family violence. A wide range of activities were implemented under the project, including: legal advice, psychological counseling, social support, employment skills, creation of the Business Incubator and Work Agency for women coming out of discrimination and violence, workshops and financial counseling, group meetings for children, group meetings for the mothers, and facilitation of the women’s Bank for the Exchange of Services and Commodities. Over 500 women benefited from the services provided by the Centre. As a result of the project over 100 women became more economically independent (found employment, received alimony or social benefits).

Summary of bilateral results