The SELAMET model develops and expands an existing pilot model of community-based intervention on Lesvos aimed at empowering women experiencing multiple forms of vulnerability: a refugee or migrant background, poverty, single parenthood, unemployment, or exposure to gender-based violence. The project’s overall objective is to ensure that these women exercise their fundamental rights to the full, by bolstering both their skills and their systematic participation in the formulation of local policies and practices. The project develops an interventionary model based on human rights and participation, while strengthening public services to make them more inclusive and accessible. SELAMET’s strategy is based on a two-pronged approach: on the one hand, empowering the women themselves to become active agents of advocacy and change; on the other, training professionals (doctors, teachers, employers) through reverse mentoring workshops to develop their skills in understanding and respecting diversity.
Target groups:
- Women experiencing multiple forms of vulnerability (women with refugee or migrant backgrounds, single mothers, survivors of gender or domestic violence, and women living in poverty and social exclusion)
- The participants’ children
- Health, education and employment professionals
- Local bodies and the Municipal Authority
- The local community of Lesvos
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