Jewish Women International Canada (JWI/C) has created a speakers’ bureau to help spread awareness of domestic abuse in the Jewish community.
Executive director of JWI/C, Penny Krowitz, said that the idea is not for the woman to get revenge publicly, ‘but rather to describe the abuse and talk about how she felt while it was going on.’
She said that its aim is to help people understand what acceptable behavior is and to help identify emotional, psychological, financial and sexual abuse.
In order to reach to the people personally, the organization has trained the university students who voluntarily took part in it.
In order to reach and help the women who are into abusive relationships, the organization has collaborated with Jewish Family & Child Service and the University of Toronto School of social work.
She has urged women who are undergoing hardships in life ‘to get out. There is help out there. No one is alone anymore.’
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