On Thursday 22nd of January, the councillor for Social Inclusion, Mari Francis Alarcón (PP), and the councillor for Foreigners, Mario Bravo (PP), chaired the quarterly meeting of the Viogenex group, which analyses the situation and measures taken to assits foreign victims of gender-based violence. The meeting was also attended by municipal staff, representatives of social groups, the Local Police and the Civil Guard.

Viogenex is a working group set up to support foreign women who are victims of gender-based violence in Mijas and, as the Town Hall points out, “it is a pioneering initiative in Spain that arose at the request of the Mijas Foreigners Department during the Local Security Board meeting held in November 2016, due to the need and lack of information for foreign women and to coordinate assistance and prevent violence in general”.

Housing solutions

In this latest meeting, participants included representatives from the Red Cross, Lions Club, Málaga Acoge, Local Police, Civil Guard, Social Services and members of the Foreigners Department. Among other issues, they discussed offering housing solutions for the first 48 hours for victims of gender-based violence, as foreign women often lack a family support network and are unfamiliar with the language.

“The Town Hall is doing everything it can to help victims and, of course, we support the organisations that assist them. From Social Services we offer comprehensive assistance”, explained Bravo.

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