€ 2 million to help victims of violence

This Friday, April 17, the Women's Foundation revealed that nearly two million euros had been collected in less than a month to help associations supporting women victims of violence. This money will finance food aid but also temporary rehousing solutions. "It is an unprecedented mobilization of citizens, patrons and partner companies which has made it possible to set up concrete solutions for containment", welcomes the Women's Foundation in a press release.

Shortly after the start of containment, the organization launched an emergency collection on March 25 "#Toutessolidaires" to raise funds to help women exposed to domestic violence."100% of donations collected are donated to field associations as soon as possible", explains the foundation. 122 associations were actually able to benefit from financial or logistical support (computers, hydroalcoholic gel) in order to be able to continue their listening and support activities during this period of social distancing.

Since the government introduced containment to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, reports of domestic violence increased by almost 40% according to the Ministry of the Interior. "Associations are also increasingly requested", a spokesperson for the organization told AFP, calling for the donations to continue because "the urgency is to be able to help women from their homes. "

Nearly 40,000 overnight stays were funded through partnerships with Accor, which makes hotel rooms available to associations throughout France, but also with the property company Gecina, which made 70 rooms available in a residence university of the Paris region. "Ten days after the start of the partnership, half of the rooms in the university residence are already occupied", said the spokesperson.

This Thursday, April 16, the Secretary of State for Equality between Women and Men, Marlène Schiappa, also assured that the government had funded "up to 20,000 hotel nights, in addition to the usual places in accommodation centers, to allow women who need to flee to be able to be accommodated, not to end up on the street". She pointed out that it was a "government priority to end dangerous cohabitation" remembering that reception and listening points in shopping centers and pharmacies had been set up so that the victims domestic violence can safely alert.

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