
Prevention and/or Elimination of Gender-Based Violence Against Women and Girls with Disabilities
According to the UN Women report, since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, mentioned that violence against women and girls, has intensified. Situation women and girls with disabilities is marginalized and isolated during the pandemic.
They have lack of information, transportation and resources to access social service and healthcare including mental health and reproductive health and rights. Gender-based violence prevention and mitigation becomes the keystone of OHANA’s program to advocate rights of women and girls with disabilities fighting for access to justice on all forms of violence and abused. OHANA started this program since 2019 in Yogyakarta Province. We develop outreach programs intervention and custom fitted wheelchairs for women and girls with disabilities who are victims of violence. We partner with Civil Society Organizations such as Migrant Care to address intersectionality issue of Indonesian women’s migrant workers, who are those have disabilities due to accident and violence during they work in other countries.
Our program includes training for leadership skills, reproductive health and rights education to improve women and girl’s self-esteem and make them to speak out when they are facing all forms of violence. Our program aims to continue promoting preventive and mitigation, such as coping skills, access to social services, legal services, and community connectedness.