ÇANKAYA MUNICIPALITY STANDS BESIDE WOMEN

02 August 2018 Thursday 11:14

Çankaya Municipality, which works to ensure gender equality and for the elimination of existing inequalities, stands beside women.

Çankaya Municipality, which is the first purple Flag owner local government, gave support to 261 women suffering from violence, seeking legal rights, and needing psychological support, and placed 16 women and 11 children to the women’s shelter in the first 6 months of this year.

Çankaya Municipality, which has been a role model for local governments with its efforts to ensure gender equality, gave support to 261 women suffering from violence, seeking legal rights, and needing psychological support.

Çankaya Municipality, which gave support to women through Women's Counseling Center (458 89 00/1154) also placed 16 women and 11 children to the women’s shelter in the first 6 months of 2018. The Center, which is in cooperation with various non-governmental organizations to meet the needs of women and children staying in women's shelter, also organized social events for children staying in shelters.

HAND LABOR STANDS

Çankaya Municipality, which gives priority to services that provide equal participation of women in social life and employment, provided the opportunity to open stands at market places and shopping centers regularly in order to make women's work more visible. In the "Women's Labor Festival" which Çankaya Municipality has made it traditional, Ankara's laboring women offered their handmade products to the taste of public for three days. In the first six months of the year, approximately 400 women benefited from these opportunities.

Çankaya Municipality which organizes trainings and workshops under the titles of; "Gender Equality", "Health", "Women's Acting in Cinema", "Rights Literacy", "Social Sensitive Budgeting Principles", "Discrimination", "Father Support Program", "Violence", and "Women's Human Rights", provided 110 men, as well as 420 women, to take advantage of these trainings.

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