(Protection and Prevention)
The Migrant Women Association Malta was established in 2015 as one of the organizations that provide counselling, training, information sessions, and workshops to strengthen refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant women knowledge on the sexual and gender-based violence topics.
MWAM has been contracted to build the methodology and implement information sessions training on sexual and gender-based violence with the following governmental entities and non governmental organizations:
- In 2020 during the Covid-19 Pandemic MWAM contracted with Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Malta through an integrated project funded by UNHCR. Where MWAM implemented in collaboration with JRS and Women right foundation two training programs for thirteen women community leaders, addressing Sexual and Gender-based violence prevention and protection to women asylum seekers at Hal Far Open Centres (HOC).
- In 2020 MWAM contracted with Women’s right foundation to provide information sessions on FGM (Female genital mutilation )for professional workers in the social, governmental, nongovernment and health sectors.
- In 2019 MWAM contracted with the International Organization for Migration Malta, Where Migrant Women Association Malta implemented and provided information sessions to raise awareness about Sexual and gender based violence(SGBV) among migrant communities in Malta. MWAM targeted and provided this service to more than one hundred refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant communities in open centres including men, women, and LGBTQ+ adults as well as young people.
- In 2019 MWAM Contracted with Jesuit Refugee Service(JRS) Malta through an integrated project funded by UNHCR. MWAM has provided over 20 refugee/asylum seekers/migrant women with counselling services and psychological support for SGBV and victims of smuggling/trafficking. MWAM also provided training for cultural mediators in terms of how to act professionally as translators during counselling sessions
- In 2018 MWAM was the first association in Malta to provide service within psychological support to refugee/asylum seekers and migrant women in Malta through the Better Future Project which was funded by the U.S Department of State’s Julia Taft Fund for refugee protection and assistance.
MWAM provided psychotherapeutic services for victims of smuggling/trafficking. By the end of this project MWAM managed to fulfil this unmet need ; as more than 40 women received the psychological service support.
- In 2018 MWAM contracted as a partner of the EU funded project ‘Breaking the Cycle of Violence’, with the Ministry for Social Dialogue, Consumer Affairs & Civil Liberties, which aims to educate & raise awareness on violence. MWAM implemented and provided a program of training of SGBV topics for ten leader women within migrant communities.