Garance ASBL

Garance ASBL is rated 3 out of 5 in the category public safety. Read and write reviews about Garance ASBL. Violence is preventable. Therefore, Garance focusses on everything that one can do before violence emerges – to prevent that it emerges. We tackle the risk factors that make certain population groups more vulnerable for violence, particularly women. The goal of all our activities is to increase the agency of our participants. Our approach is participative and aims at people’s autonomy and full respect of their human rights. To be able to examine and better understand the causes and consequences of violence, we carry out research, edit publications and share a novel thought : we can prevent violence and protect against it. The biggest part of our activities consists in a range of workshops, from self-defence to discussion groups on the topic of security and violence prevention. We work not only with a gender-specific approach, but also with an age-specific approach wherever possible, for example with women from 55 on. We we propose tailor-made workshops for women’s shelters, literacy groups and similar services. A further stepping stone of our programme are the professional training workshops on violence prevention for people who have to do with this topic in their work environment : aggressive clients, colleagues, patients etc or victims of violence. We also organise train-the-trainer workshops and contribute our expertise to research and political decision-making processes in the fields of safety and equal opportunities.