SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 19 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The CEO of Equality and Prevention of Gender Violence, Priscila de León, has held a meeting with teachers from various educational centers on the island to coordinate prevention actions to combat and raise awareness of gender violence in Tenerife classrooms .
Also present at the meeting, held at the La Laguna Teaching Center, were the deputy director of the Equality Unit of the University of La Laguna, Matilde Díaz Hernández; the coordinator of the Equality and affective sexual education area of the General Directorate of Planning, Innovation and Quality of the Government of the Canary Islands, Belén Blanco; as well as technical staff from the municipalities of Adeje, Icod de los Vinos and Santa Úrsula, which are some of the municipalities in which the schools participating in this program are located.
Priscila de León explained that these actions are part of a new edition of the Enrédate sin machismo program, with which the Cabildo aims to prevent situations of gender violence among young people.
In this sense, he recalled that, “according to the Sociodemographic Study of the Adolescent and Youth Population of the Island of Tenerife, which we carried out together with the University of La Laguna, 50% of young people deny the existence of gender violence and believe that it affects men and women equally, which highlights the need to continue promoting this program and insisting on prevention and awareness”.
In line with the above, the CEO highlighted the importance of delving into the indicators of control and domination that are reproduced in young couples, as well as making visible the myths of romantic love, sexual diversity, harassment or social construction of the genre.
The contents will be taught in eleven sessions of fifty minutes each, in person and under the workshop format. In some of the sessions the students will be separated by sex or gender, in such a way that the boys will have a monitor and the girls a monitor, both specialists in equality and prevention of gender violence, abounds.
Once the sessions are over, the IV Insular Encounter of young people Enrédate sin Machismo will be held, in which the students of the centers involved in the program will present the products produced (songs, games, videos…), as an awareness-raising activity.
Enrédate sin machismo is part of the II Strategic Framework for Actions on Gender Equality Policies Tenerife Violeta and will run for twelve months. It is a socio-educational intervention project that aims to prevent sexist violence among the young population, especially in relationships between heterosexual adolescent couples, and with which more than 2,500 male and female students have been reached.
A total of 12 institutes will participate in this edition: IES Cruz Santa, IES San Marcos, IES Anaga, IES Padre Anchieta, IES Arico, IES Santa Úrsula, IES La Victoria, IES Granadilla, IES Sabino Berthelot, IES Teobaldo Power, IES Adeje and IES Los Cardones.
Likewise, it will be taught at the Valle Tabares Educational Internment Center for Minors (CIEMI), and in the case of the ULL, 9 workshops will be held for first-year students of different grades.
