A new video will be released this week encouraging women in abusive relationships to seek help.
The Dallas Neighbourhood House in partnership with the Northern Community Legal Centre are releasing the video to correspond with International Women’s Day.
The video has been developed as part of a peer education project involving women from a range of different cultural backgrounds who live in Hume.
The educators attended a series of education sessions on family violence and then worked with film makers, Fringe Dweller Films, to
write the script. Several of the women involved also went on to feature in the video.
Peer educator Urmila Banavali said they thought the video gave a simple but very powerful message.
“This problem is not specific to any community but faced by many.”
Dallas Neighbourhood House manager Carolyn Webster said they were thrilled with the end product and believe it’s quite unique.
“It’s simple and very moving. We hope that it will empower women to seek help.”
The video will be shared with the wider community and distributed to agencies and service providers.
Details: manager@dallasnh.org.au
