Gender- Based Violence Prevention Program
We are committed to enabling racialized immigrant women to settle in Canada and be free of oppression, victimization or violence. Our GBV work takes a two-pronged approach of working with survivors and their service providers to reduce the incidence of GBV and improve the quality of life for survivors.
Work with survivors: IWIN offers linguistically and culturally tailored information resources, peer support, counselling and referrals to GBV survivors and those at risk. IWIN also work with young girls (9-15) from communities vulnerable to violence to develop their understanding of power imbalance in gender relations at the root of GBV and the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships and offer counselling as needed.
Work with service providers: IWIN is working on several sectoral capacity-building interventions to improve the quality of gender-based violence prevention services to South Asian survivors.
Online Course on Patriarchy and GBV
IWIN offers a free online self-paced course for frontline workers about the realities of Patriarchy and Gender-based Violence from South Asia women's perspective. The course is for frontline workers and anyone else who provides services to South Asian survivors of gender-based violence in Canada.
It caters to social and cultural sensibilities specific to South Asian communities in Canada and provides a framework for better serving this community.
MODULES
MODULE 1
Understanding patriarchy, domestic violence, and intimate partner violence
The first module will define the basic terminology and help the learners understand the context of domestic violence and intimate partner violence in the community. The module discusses the issue with accuracy backed by statistics, the impact of long-term exposure to violence, and helps the participants explain the concepts better to their clients
MODULE 3
Challenges specific to South Asian immigrant Women in dealing with domestic violence
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The third module focuses on better understanding the challenges faced by South Asian women and how those specific challenges impact their access to what is available to Canadian citizens and residents.
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MODULE 2
Patriarchy and its effect on the South Asian immigrant community in Canada
The second module discusses the linkage of capitalism and colonialism to patriarchy. It focuses on the connection of culture and religion to female subjugation and how it impacts the familial relationship.
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Program for Afghan Girls' Empowerment
IWIN stands shoulder to shoulder with our Afghan sisters in their struggle against the misogynistic Taliban government. Since August 2021, when the Taliban took over the Afghanistan government, they have issued edicts restricting women's mobility and access to education. Currently, no education is available for girls beyond grade 6. Women and girls are also barred from seeking medical care from male doctors and nurses. Still, they are also not allowing women doctors to work or younger generations to have access to higher education.
IWIN is fully committed to working with Afghan women and girls in Canada who have endured this trauma. We are running an empowerment program for young Afghan refugee girls (Aged 9-15) who arrived in Canada under a special resettlement program introduced by the government of Canada after the takeover of the Afghan government by the Taliban.
Their settlement in Canada requires a survivor-centred, trauma-informed, and culturally safe approach that could expose them to the possibilities of life in Canada. The program aims to educate them about life as a girl child in a free society, their rights, independent thinking, perspectives and approaches to interpersonal relationships, boundaries, and consent, which will help them lead more fulfilled and safer lives.