TANIA'S EXPERIENCE
Twenty years fighting for the women rights
Tania, the younger daughter
of a Somali family, is now a 35-year-old woman, married with a Catalan man
and they have 2 children.
Tania tells us about the last twenty years of her life, this is the real reason of why she's the "Person of
the year".
When she was a teenager she left her country, Somalia, because she was a victim of the gender violence
from her father and her husband. Actually she didn't want to marry him. After a lot of
difficulties and kilometres she arrived to Catalonia.
When she arrived
she thought that their own experience must be useful to avoid more cases of
gender violence in Africa.
She created the association
called AfricanWomenRights. The association's purpose is to collect money from
particular people and public institutions to facilitate education to girls and to get visibility to the
International Comunity, as well as to provide safety to the women that feel assaulted.
This association has allowed that thousands of women had a better life and more freedom.
Mar Bochaca Pons
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