Women Lions club donates T-shirts to Orange Day campaign |30 March 2021
Mrs Larue (left) accepting the T-shirts from Ms Mohotti
The Seychelles Centennial Women Lions Club (SCWLC) has donated a batch of T-shirts to the Family department for its Orange Day campaign.
The handover of the T-shirts took place on Orange Day last Thursday at the Family House, Bel Eau.
It was Jane Larue, the director-general for research and policy planning division under the aegis of the Family department who received the donation from the SCWLC president Ruth Mohotti.
Accepting the 35 custom printed T-shirts, Mrs Larue thanked the club for its ongoing commitment to helping put an end to all forms of violence against women and girls.
Ms Mohotti reiterated the department’s full support to help girls and women in Seychelles to overcome social challenges such as abuse.
“We're an all-women club and part of our mandate is reaching out to the government to support and fill in the gap. When we reached out to the ministry we were presented with the Domestic Violence project and saw it was a valid cause and even if it is T-shirts we believe in sustainable projects and this is something that is not just one-off,” Ms Mohotti said.
The T-shirts will be worn on the 25th of every month where everyone is encouraged to wear orange in solidarity with survivors of violence and to take a stand on ending gender-based violence.
The donation received will be distributed to staff and key partners.
The Orange Day Campaign emulated that of the United Nations 2008 Campaign UNiTE to End Violence against Women. The overarching objective of UNiTE to End Violence against Women was to raise public awareness and increase political will and resources in prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls. As a result, the campaign harmonised the work of all UN offices and agencies working to end aggression against women. A highly ambitious campaign that set out five key outcomes for all countries to achieve by 2015:
- Adoption and enforcement of national laws to address and punish all forms of violence against women and girls, in line with international human rights standards;
- Adoption and implementation of multi-sectoral national plans of action that emphasise prevention and are adequately resourced;
- Establishment of data collection and analysis systems, on the prevalence of various forms of violence against women and girls;
- Establishment of national and/or local campaigns and the engagement of a diverse range of civil society actors in preventing violence and in supporting women and girls who have been abused.
- Systematic efforts to address sexual violence in conflict situations and to protect women and girls from rape as a tactic of war, and the full implementation of related laws and policies.
The Seychelles local campaign did not stop in 2015, but the department continues to advocate against gender based violence with its local campaign on the 25th of every month.
Press release from the Family department
