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Centro de Promoción de la Dignidad Humana
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Project name Support for victims of domestic violence
Year started 2000
Location Montevideo
Area of work Comprehensive Care
Beneficiaries in 2011 70 women and children
Start of support 2005
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The institution
The Center for the Promotion of Human Dignity (CEPRODIH) is a non-profit organization that since 1997 attends to more than 500 women, children, youths and elderly people with problems of unemployment, domestic violence and homelessness. CEPRODIH has five centers in various neighborhoods of Montevideo with more than 90 technicians and professionals working in them.
 
The project
Since 2005, Reaching U has financed CEPRODIH projects aimed at improving the quality of life and empowerment of women and children who are victims of domestic violence. It also works to promote employment opportunities. The organization adopts a comprehensive approach to these problems. CEPRODIH provides primary care, shelter, food and contention for the families, and once the emergency situation is stabilized and attended to, it proposes training alternatives, job placement and in some cases, a permanent home can be found. The organization addresses all dimensions of the problem, which has earned it the recognition of the government and national and international organizations.

In 2011, Reaching U funded part of the work of the technical team that provides care, containment and advice to pregnant women at risk and families who are victims of domestic violence and request the support of the organization.

 
Achievements with Reaching U's support...
  • 2010: launching and implementing the Por Venir program for the care of pregnant women at high social risk. Its objective is to prevent abortions owing to lack of alternatives for dealing with pregnancies.
  • 2009: refurbishment and equipment of Hogar Puerto located in Ciudad Vieja, with a capacity to house 15 women and 40 children victims of domestic violence.
  • 2008: equipment for the home located in Ciudad Vieja, for mothers and children victims of domestic violence. Reaching U also funded the refurbishment of a training center and funded productive workshops that were given in the second half of 2008. In addition, school support was provided with a teacher, for those women who had not completed primary education.
  • 2007: finance for a shelter for mothers and children who have been victims of domestic violence and/or are homeless.
  • 2006: equipment a computer room to provide data-entry training for several women, and furniture for a kindergarten.
  • 2005: refurbishment and equipment of a day center for homeless women and children.
 
     
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