FWCC team on Gau Island for 2-wks training and awareness sessions with both women and men

A team from the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre are on Gau Island for a two weeks training and awareness sessions with both women and men.

The team includes Senior Counsellors and Community Educators Lavenia Tuitabu and Ilisapeci Maria, Legal Officer Lavenia Raisua and Communications Officer Semi Turaga.

The first week of the training will be on Gender, Human Rights, Violence against Women and Girls and Legal Literacy, where 50 women from the villages of Sawaieke, Somosomo, Yadua, Nawaikama, Nukuloa, Lovu, Vadravadra and Levuka-i-Gau will attend.

Next week, 50 men will go through the training at Nawaikama Village.

These training and awareness sessions were organised after an official request from Assistant Roko Tui Lomaiviti Iosefo Vereivalu earlier in the year.

Vereivalu is an FWCC Male Advocate for Women's Human Rights.

This is also in line with the National Action Plan to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls.

A comprehensive and holistic training module has been developed by FWCC and is used in various training packages locally and regionally with relevant adaptations.

The program is supported by the Australian Government through its Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.