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Equal Opportunities for Older Women |
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| Selbstbehauptung und Selbstverteidigung für Frauen ab 60 (Self-assertion and Self-defence for Women over 60) | |||||||||
| Communicational details | |||||||||
| Address: Frauen Offensiv e.V. Emilstr. 10 64289 Darmstadt Germany |
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| Contact persons and their
known foreign languages: Cornelia Biedenkapp, Wen Do Trainer Doris Aubele, Wen Do Trainer, English |
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| Telephone:
0049-6151-716841 Telefax: E-Mail: Internet: |
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| About the initiative | |||||||||
| Status of the initiative: | The initiative is an initiative aimed at improving equal opportunities for older women through an organisation that pursues objectives which are independent of gender or age. | ||||||||
| The initiative has the dicisive support of
the following organisation: Frauen Offensiv e.V. |
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| Address: siehe oben Emilstr. 10 64289 Darmstadt Germany |
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| Telephone:
0049-6151-716841 Telefax: E-Mail: Internet: |
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| Content and framework conditions of the project work | |||||||||
| The initiative was founded in: 1987 | |||||||||
| The initiative was founded
because of the following reasons: The association was founded to help combat everyday violence against women and young girls by helping them to help themselves. The course for older women was created for similar reasons. |
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| Target group(s): | All women 60 and older, independent of origin, skin colour, religion and lifestyle - all women, whether loud or quiet, introvert or extrovert, with or without impairments, athletic or otherwise. | ||||||||
| Targets: | - Rediscovering one's own strength and learning to
trust it, -Discovering one's own limits and going right up to them, -Rapidly learning self-defence techniques, -Using personal possessions as weapons, -Walking safely, maintaining a secure stance. |
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| Details of the work done by
the initiative: Our self-assertion and
self-defence training includes |
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| Areas of work of the initiative: | |||||||||
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| Success that the initiative
has achieved: Women rediscover their strength; they have more room to breathe and their joie de vivre increases. |
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| Problems that the
initiative has been faced during its work: We have scarcely any financial support from public funds, and most of our work is carried out by volunteers. |
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| Participation of the target
group concerning the conception, planning and implementation of the initiative's work: Each participant can help decide the content of the course. |
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| Co-operation: Since 1987 we have been exchanging experiences on a regional and transregional level with other Wen Do trainers |
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| Information: We are available for people interested in receiving more information on our initiative by phone. |
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| Organisational background of the initiative | |||||||||
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| Publications or information
material available on our initiative: 2 half-yearly programs per year, brochures on Wen Do. |
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| Recommended literature: Martina Böhmer: Erfahrungen sexualisierter Gewalt in der Lebensgeschichte alter Frauen, Mabuse Verlag 1999 |
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