The Advisor for Social Affairs, Inclusion, Family and Elderly, Marisol Illescas, presented this Tuesday the activities of 25N, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, accompanied by the president of the Association of Dama women, Alicia Toledano and the secretary of the association, Maria Consuelo Rodriguez Navarro.
Toledo thus joins this commemoration with a complete program presented in the last Local Women’s Council, which includes 26 activities, 44 percent more than two years ago with the previous government team.
Illescas assured that since Department of Social Affairs They are working to increase the number and quality of these activities to “raise awareness of this social scourge which, unfortunately, continues to kill many women today”.
This year, the programming has as a common thread gender violence among women over 60. The councilor assured that the objective “is to make visible the incidence of violence against elderly women, which is generally perpetrated by the partner with whom they have lived for decades, and which in many cases becomes taboo”. This is reflected in the exhibition “Miame: I am visible”, which can be visited from November 19 to 30 at the San Marcos Cultural Center.
Among the scheduled activities are training courses, health itineraries, a self-defense workshop for women, in collaboration with the local police and the Juit Judo Club, the screening of the film “Soy Nevenka” by Iciar Bollaín, the show of dance ‘Dulce Amargura’.’ at the Hospitalito del Rey on November 22, a family gymkhana for gender equality in the Corral de Don Diego.
Already November 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, The “Always Alive” event will take place in Nara Park, where a tree will be planted for every woman murdered in 2024, with the collaboration of schools. That same day, in the afternoon, students from the School of Art will create a ten-meter mural “Toledo against gender violence” and at 5:00 p.m. the march that will leave La Vega will be announced with luminous symbology. As Marisol Illescas explains, “a human chain will be formed with torches to make visible the violence that women suffer.” In this sense, the councilor indicated that if this event could not take place due to works in the Bisagra area, it would be moved to Corral de Don Diego.
Finally, Illescas thanked “the valuable collaboration” of the entities participating in this 25N program, as well as the Women’s Center and the Local Women’s Council.
The entire program can be consulted on the Toledo City Hall website, via the following link
