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Counselling

VWC provides Centre-based counselling as well as mobile counselling. Counsellors listen to you then help you to find solutions to your problems. All women and children are welcome to come to the centre for counselling. You can also phone or write to the VWC about your concerns. Everything is kept confidential between the counsellor and you.

Community Education

The VWC provides information to the community at large on the issue of violence against women and children. This is carried out through community workshops, public awareness talks, and our fortnightly radio programs. VWC also produces T-shirts, Stickers, Posters, Calendars, and other materials that promote awareness of women’s and children’s rights.

Legal Advocacy

The VWC works to empower women by making them aware of their legal rights, in particular their rights regarding marriage, divorce, custody, maintenance and domestic violence. The VWC also plays an important role lobbying for law reform that will further promote and protect women’s right and protect them from violence.

The VWC also promotes and disseminate information on the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), as well as lobbying for their implementation at national level

Cavaw

The Vila CAVAW began organizing activities for the 16 days of Activism Campaign against Gender Violence in 1992. It was then agreed that the CAVAW should have a permanent centre to address the issues of violence against women in Vanuatu. The Centre was staffed by volunteers until 1994, when funding was provided by the international Women’s Development Agency (IWDA).