The group Viogenex (acronym for Gender Violence among Foreign Women) held its first meeting of the year 2024 last Tuesday 16th, in which "opinions and possible solutions" to fight against gender violence were exchanged, as well as "taking stock of the past year", according to sources from the Department for Foreigners. The mayoress of Mijas, Ana Mata (PP), who is in charge of the Department of Family and Equal Opportunities, assured that "gender violence will be tackled from the Town Hall in a cross-cutting manner to attend to all women who go through a situation of this type". "This is why the joint work of the Department for Foreigners and the associations that work with women of other nationalities is fundamental", added the mayoress.

This first Viogenex meeting of the year also welcomed the councillor for Foreigners, Mario Bravo (PP), and the councillor for Social Inclusion and Education, Melisa Ceballos (PP), who attended the working group for the first time. The head of the Department for Foreigners explained that this type of Viogenex meeting is "quarterly in nature" and serves "to present the cases that have been addressed with a double objective: to prevent gender violence in general and to provide prompt attention to women victims of violence". "We have to comply with the Law, the official requirements are complicated and our job is to make this officialdom compatible when handling public resources with immediate attention to the woman who needs it and for this we have the collaboration of all those who attended the meeting and also with some private companies who help us discreetly and who know that they have all our gratitude", added the councillor.

A social worker from the Finnish church in Fuengirola, Tia Raunio, who is in charge of advising and supporting "her Finnish compatriots by applying for help, translating or collaborating with the Police and Guardia Civil", was also a guest at the meeting, explained the Foreigners Department of the Mijas Town Hall.
  
Next meeting
The Viogenex group, which will hold its next meeting on Thursday 18th of April, was born in 2016 as a working group established to help foreign women victims of gender violence in Mijas as a response to the lack of information they were facing and to cover their needs. The group was also created with the aim of coordinating, planning and preventing this social scourge in the town. The group is made up of different areas of the Mijas Town Hall, the Local Police, the Guardia Civil and social agents such as Soroptimist International, Cruz Roja Mijas, Age Care and the Lions Club, among others.

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