In order to help meet the objectives, challenges and goals of the Ecoceanos foundation in the areas of women and gender, this project is developed for the comprehensive care of women victims of violence, which aims to place the gaze of society and institutions in general towards women as subjects of law, and with full guarantees for the integral development of their human dignity. From the very conception of the development plan, and its execution through different planning, prevention, attention and support programs for groups and networks (up to now), women have made significant progress in terms of awareness, productivity, associativity and participation in urban and rural areas at the administrative, political, business and community levels. However, the numbers of gender-based violence (GBV) and other forms of violence continue to grow for various reasons that are based on the lack of knowledge of current regulations by men and women, as well as cultural conditions and structuring factors such as sexism, exclusion and discrimination, among others.
This situation, which occurs in general, is worsened to a great extent by the lack of denunciation by women, the loss of self-confidence, family disarticulation and lack of affective and effective communication within the couple (above all). That is, there is still a low self-esteem that does not allow them to see much beyond their daily lives and personal experience, leading them to silently carry (in most cases) a suffering that they do not deserve, but from which they can get out, if working together depends on it.
This shows that there is a need to redouble efforts to guarantee more humane institutional strategies, in order to continue advancing towards the ideal of a Quindio free of violence, especially towards women and their family members. Consequently, in accordance with the postulates expressed in the Development Plan, which contemplates the creation of the integral attention project, and which has been working in phases, this being the collection of the accumulated institutional and social experience in a single proposal of an integrating nature, as required by the moment, the population, the territory and the socio-political planning of the coast.
For this reason, the Gender and Women’s Equity Office of the Family Secretariat of the Ecoceanos Foundation proposes a comprehensive strategy to help women victims to overcome their hopelessness, self-esteem, love and respect for themselves and be respected, a project that integrates actions that become their support network in all senses; legal, social, psychological, economic and cultural, strengthening the existing ones in each woman and potentiating their creative and creative skills, leadership, management and above all stabilizing the family, business and society.
