Social media campaign to help local multicultural women

Nambour Community Centre has launched a social media campaign this week to help raise awareness and put an end to the different forms of Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) against women of all ages, cultures and backgrounds.

Starting Monday and running throughout May — which is Domestic and Family Violence month — the campaign is specifically targeted at multicultural women.

Nambour Community Centre is sharing the series of posts and information on its facebook page.  

‘We want women to know that they have rights, that there is support available and they are not alone’

Nambour Community Centre

“There are 18 slides altogether that will be posted over the next 18 days,” said Settlement Engagement & Transition Support Worker Linda Dennis, who created the campaign along with Carmen Ler from Apex Business Elevation and Hannah Appleby.

“They are grouped into topics of financial abuse, deportation, control and isolation,  and criticising and insults. The slides are based around issues multicultural women have talked to me about in my work at the Centre.

“This campaign is like no other. It has pictures of multicultural women in it.  It aims to empower women, and to get women from multicultural background to start talking about DFV within their communities and with their family and friends.  

Linda said the campaign tried to take a delicate approach to a complex issue.  “We want women to know that they have rights, that there is support available and they are not alone,” she said.

Nambour Community Centre is at 2 Shearer St. Phone 07 5441 4660. Mobile 0402 128 978. Web www.nambourcc.org. Email settlement@nambourcc.org