IWIN engages in range of policies that help women in Canada connect and feel safe. 

 

We are committed to enabling racialized immigrant women to settle in Canada and be free of oppression, victimization or violence. Our GBV work takes a two-pronged approach of working with survivors and their service providers to reduce the incidence of GBV and improve the quality of life for survivors.

Work with survivors: IWIN offers linguistically and culturally tailored information resources, peer support, counselling and referrals to GBV survivors and those at risk. IWIN also work with young girls (9-15) from communities vulnerable to violence to develop their understanding of power imbalance in gender relations at the root of GBV and the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships and offer counselling as needed.
 
Work with service providers: IWIN is working on several sectoral capacity-building interventions to improve the quality of gender-based violence prevention services to South Asian survivors.