Youth For Love

The project provides training activities for students to understand gender-based violence and how to prevent or address it and for teachers to develop new teaching methodologies and safe and accessible school procedures for reporting violent incidents. The project foresees also creative student peer to peer awareness raising activities. Finally, it aims at creating a network of institutions and organizations active in the field of gender-based violence to promote an active exchange of best practices.

Gender-based violence among adolescents remains an underestimated phenomenon despite its pervasive nature and the negative short and long-term consequences it has on the people involved and the community. Education is central to efforts to prevent gender-based violence (GBV) because it addresses its underlying causes and drivers. It helps fighting the negative social norms, changing perspectives on gender relationships and roles, and challenging myths about violence and sexual harassment. In this regard, schools, in collaboration with students, parents, public and private services, have a fundamental role in the prevention and management of episodes of violence through educational programs and procedures.