This content was published on 23 October 2021 – 05:20
Sydney (Australia), Oct 23 (EFE) .- The Australian government offers from this week payments of about $ 3,742 (3,212 euros) to people, mainly women, who flee from situations of domestic violence so that they can start a new life .
Under this two-year pilot plan, the women will receive aid of $ 1,122 (964 euros) in cash and the rest in bonds to cover expenses such as school fees, as well as goods and services to start a safe life.
In order for the victims to receive this payment, managed by the Uniting Care Australia Consortium organization, financial need and evidence of domestic violence will be taken into account, such as a court or police order or having gone to a help center, among others.
For Gabriela Salbert, who works within Sydney’s mental health services, this plan approved on Tuesday is a “good practical help” for women to get out of the house, although there is still much more to do to fight domestic violence. , such as allocating “more resources to education.”
Likewise, the psychologist and expert in family therapy emphasizes to Efe the importance of the aid being given “case by case” so that it really satisfies “a real need” to avoid criticism of this program “that in the long term do not help the movement ( against domestic violence) “.
It is expected that the bulk of aid recipients will be women, who often leave abusive homes with their children, wearing the clothes they are wearing, and then often have to return to their partners due to lack of resources.
As Anne Ruston, Australian Minister for Women, recalled in a statement, “financial difficulties, as well as economic abuse … reduce the ability of women to acquire and use money and make it difficult to exit violent relationships”
For this reason, the New South Wales government announced an investment of some 363 million dollars (312 million euros) to create 75 shelters near legal aid centers and jobs.
Linda Scott, president of the local governments of New South Wales, frames the need to build at least 5,000 social housing in this region, where the rent of a two-bedroom house represents 65 percent of the income of a single parent family, according to a statement sent to Efe.
Australia, where one in six women is a victim of domestic violence and one is murdered every nine days by a former or current partner, ranks 24th in terms of gender inequality and 46th in the global gender gap in a world ranking of UN Women.EFE
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