OLONGAPO CENTER FOR WOMEN
MARKS TWO YEARS IN SERVICE
Olongapo City’s Center for Women is now on its second year of continuously providing services to protect the welfare of Olongapo’s women.
The Center is a pet project of Mayor James “Bong” Gordon, Jr. and First Lady Zambales Vice Governor Anne Marie Gordon, chairperson of the Olongapo City Women’s Council.
In its 2nd year, the Center that was inaugurated in 2006, already recorded nearly a hundred (100) “women survivors” who who were taken-cared of by the social workers of the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) headed by Gene Eclarino.
The center will celebrate its 2nd year anniversary on March 8 as the city also celebrates International Women’s Month.
As a temporary refuge, the Center for Women mainly caters to battered, abused or abandoned women. The services include medical, psychological testing and evaluation, maternal and child care development, self-enhancement skill development, livelihood skills development, legal services, case works and counseling.
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Primarily, the center aims to defend and fight for the rights of women by giving them immediate and proper “therapeutic services,” especially the victims of cruelty. In this way, “women survivors” will be able to revive their strength and capacity to cope with the situation, learn to associate themselves back to the community and earn a living through the “Skills Training,” and to tie up with the different government agencies, non-government organizations and people’s organizations.
It can be recalled that the Center for Women of Olongapo City is the first city government-run women’s center in Region 3. This was constructed in response to the spirit of Republic Act 9262 or Anti-Violence Agaisnt Women and their Children.
Abused women may get in touch through hotline number 223-6289 or direct to the office of the Center for Women located at Mayumi St., Sta. Rita, Olongapo City.
Olongapo City’s Center for Women is now on its second year of continuously providing services to protect the welfare of Olongapo’s women.
The Center is a pet project of Mayor James “Bong” Gordon, Jr. and First Lady Zambales Vice Governor Anne Marie Gordon, chairperson of the Olongapo City Women’s Council.
In its 2nd year, the Center that was inaugurated in 2006, already recorded nearly a hundred (100) “women survivors” who who were taken-cared of by the social workers of the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) headed by Gene Eclarino.
The center will celebrate its 2nd year anniversary on March 8 as the city also celebrates International Women’s Month.
As a temporary refuge, the Center for Women mainly caters to battered, abused or abandoned women. The services include medical, psychological testing and evaluation, maternal and child care development, self-enhancement skill development, livelihood skills development, legal services, case works and counseling.
-more-
Primarily, the center aims to defend and fight for the rights of women by giving them immediate and proper “therapeutic services,” especially the victims of cruelty. In this way, “women survivors” will be able to revive their strength and capacity to cope with the situation, learn to associate themselves back to the community and earn a living through the “Skills Training,” and to tie up with the different government agencies, non-government organizations and people’s organizations.
It can be recalled that the Center for Women of Olongapo City is the first city government-run women’s center in Region 3. This was constructed in response to the spirit of Republic Act 9262 or Anti-Violence Agaisnt Women and their Children.
Abused women may get in touch through hotline number 223-6289 or direct to the office of the Center for Women located at Mayumi St., Sta. Rita, Olongapo City.
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