Purple Ribbon Campaign 2017
Posted 16 November 2017, 10:43 am NST
November 25th is International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women and December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
We are looking to the business community to help us create awareness and prevent violence against women by hanging purple lights in their local business window.
To start the campaign, Violence Prevention East will drop off purple lights in honor of women who have been victims of violence or who have lost their lives to a violent situation.
Unfortunately,
80% of victims of intimate partner violence in NL, are women.
86% of victims of intimate partner homicides in NL, are women.
If your local business is interested please contact
Tracey Fleming (Executive Director) for Violence Prevention East at 466-4676/or email ercav@gov.nl.ca
WAKE UP NL
In 2016 the NL Sexual Assault Crisis Centre received the most crisis calls in its history: 2913 calls and 879 were crisis related. 85% of the callers identify as women.
We are looking to the business community to help us create awareness and prevent violence against women by hanging purple lights in their local business window.
To start the campaign, Violence Prevention East will drop off purple lights in honor of women who have been victims of violence or who have lost their lives to a violent situation.
Unfortunately,
80% of victims of intimate partner violence in NL, are women.
86% of victims of intimate partner homicides in NL, are women.
If your local business is interested please contact
Tracey Fleming (Executive Director) for Violence Prevention East at 466-4676/or email ercav@gov.nl.ca
WAKE UP NL
In 2016 the NL Sexual Assault Crisis Centre received the most crisis calls in its history: 2913 calls and 879 were crisis related. 85% of the callers identify as women.
