EMPOWERING GRASSROOTS WOMEN
The Women’s Resource Center of Visayas, Inc. is a non-government organization based in Cebu City which provides support services to organizing and education work among grassroots women through awareness raising, capacity building, resource building, and popularization of their concerns in selected marginalized communities in Metro Cebu and other parts of Cebu Province and the Visayas.
OUR STORY
The decade of the 80s ushered in the awakening of Cebu women on their marginalized plight.
It witnessed the mushrooming of groups, institutions and programs concerned with the condition of Cebu women in particular and the Filipino women in general. Women’s organizations sprouted and the need for a resource center that will respond to their needs was seen. Thus on May 2, 1991, the Cebu Women’s Resource Center later known as Women’s Resource Center of Cebu was established. In 2009, the name was changed to Women’s Resource Center of Visayas, Inc. in order to cover the Visayas region as its scope of work.
Highlights of our Accomplishments
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Since the past two decades, we have worked to increase public awareness on the plight of women and children among the Cebuano population, launching campaigns, education activities, mobilizations and networking towards bringing the women’s issues to the fore in Cebuano society.
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Second, we have facilitated the organizing and building of women’s organizations. Believing that genuine empowerment comes when women themselves who can stand on their own, we have given education and trainings as well as guided women towards creating their very own organizations in their communities.
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Third, we have strengthened support services for survivors of gender-based violence through documentation of cases and referral to appropriate agencies and professionals for services, including legal assistance by lawyers.
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Fourth, we have also provided livelihood opportunities for women’s organizations in four barangays in Minglanilla after giving them skills trainings on handicraft making and women’s accessories such as bags and pouches.
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Fifth, we have promptly responded to disaster situations. WRCV is one of the few NGOs that promptly responded to Typhoon Yolanda that hit northern Cebu areas in November 2013. Aside from relief distribution, WRCV was able to source out funds for housing support and rehabilitation to the survivors in three municipalities in northern part of Cebu which were devastated by the typhoon.
Our Work
Education and Training
- Provides education and training on women-related courses related to organizational development
- Conducts discussion on issues and concerns affecting the Filipino people
- Equips women leaders of people’s organizations with knowledge and skills in conscientizing, organizing and mobilizing their communities on social and women issues.
Advocacy
- Assists efforts of women in various sectors in establishing and strengthening their organizations.
- Sponsors group discussions, forums and symposiums in schools and communities for the grassroots women’s issues and concerns.
Information
- Publishes the English magazine Bakud and the Cebuano comics,
- Produces fact sheets, press releases and letters to the editors
Databank
- Maintains a library with books, magazines, pamphlets, video CDs, and news
- Maintains a data bank from primary and secondary sources.
Research
- Conducts participatory researches on the actual condition of women in Cebu.
- Collects secondary data analysis relevant to women’s issues.
Direct Services
- Renders services to women victims of domestic violence such as rape and battering, in the form of legal aid, counselling and medical assistance.
- Works for the creation of Violence against Women (VAW) committees among women organizations in communities which serve as watchdogs to violence committed against women and children in their areas.
- Conducts feeding programs and relief and rehabilitation projects to needy communities.
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