This Monday, the International Women's Day commemorative events have started with the 8M tree in La Cala Mayor's Office Square. It is dedicated to the women of the world. This is a Foreigners Department initiative in collaboration with the Mijas Town Hall Equality and Diversity  Department and the Soroptimist Association to give visibility to all women in the world. "In Mijas, we have more than 120 registered nationalities, so there are women with different languages, different customs, traditions... We wanted to represent all of them in this tree", said the Foreigners Councillor, Arancha López (Cs).

 

Feminist messages hang from the tree, reminding us that not all women in the world have equal rights. "There is inequality in different countries, so these messages are dedicated to all those women who suffer from it. Spain, legislatively, is already a very advanced country in terms of rights and freedoms, but the same thing cannot be said in the rest of the world. Depending on where you are born and where you live, some women are born with no rights at all", said the Equality and Diversity Councillor, Natalia Martínez (PSOE).

Among all these messages, we also read the slogan of this year's International Women's Day, 'Unstoppable. We are 8M', which reminds us what it means to be a woman. "The tree is full of messages sent to us by foreign groups in the municipality and also from other departments in which they describe in a single sentence what the word woman means; they are beautiful messages", added López.

Many foreign women's associations have been involved in drawing up these messages. "We loved the idea of sending messages of different kinds: for equality, for women in general or for improving the women's situation in the world. We are happy that this tree can be here for the whole week and that we can come and see it, and read the messages in our languages," said one of the Soroptimist members, Anette Skou.

From its branches also hang knitted hearts made by the Spanish Cancer Association volunteers' from the Pink Ladies group. Hopefully, this tree will soon bear fruit.
 

Share it with this link: https://mijasint.com/?a=23506