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Rio City Hall launches the Move-Mulher Card
Published on 31/08/2021 - 12:56 | Updated on 31/08/2021 - 20:13
Travel assistance aims to help women in situations of violence - Beth Santos/City Hall The Rio City Hall, through the Special Secretariat for Women's Policies and Promotion, launched the Move-Mulher Card on Tuesday (31/08) at the City Palace in Botafogo. The transportation allowance is intended for women in situations of domestic and family violence, referred to and assisted by the following facilities linked to the department: the Chiquinha Gonzaga Specialized Center for Women's Assistance (CEAM), in the city center, the Casa da Mulher Carioca Tia Doca, in Madureira, and the Casa da Mulher Carioca Dinah Coutinho, in Realengo.
In total, each card will receive a charge of R$24,30 for up to six bus tickets. If a woman needs another card within a month, the city's team of social workers and psychologists will assess the need and provide it. In this first phase, 1.950 benefits will be made available. Each beneficiary of the project will receive a regular transportation card, without any type of characterization that links her to the program.
– It is unbelievable to think that a woman in a situation of violence could fail to seek out a service center, that she could fail to report the crime simply because she cannot get around the city, because the resources do not exist. It is important that projects like this are launched – declared Mayor Eduardo Paes.
Each month, CEAM provides approximately 250 services to women in situations of violence and currently provides ongoing support to approximately 130 women. Many of the women served live in locations far from CEAM, which is located in the city center, such as Realengo and Campo Grande. In addition, most of the women are in a situation of social and economic vulnerability, unemployed or underemployed, and their income does not exceed the minimum wage.
This situation makes it difficult or impossible for women to arrive and return for ongoing care and monitoring by CEAM, as well as access to other agencies and policies to which they are referred: police stations, the Forensic Medical Institute, health centers, the Social Assistance Reference Center (CRAS), the Specialized Social Assistance Reference Center (CREAS), public defenders' offices and courts. Because they do not have the financial resources necessary to travel around the city, these women sometimes have no access to specialized care, which increases the chances of them becoming victims of femicide, for example.
– The importance of the Move Mulher card is precisely to enable women to access the network that combats violence. We know that many women are unable to break the cycle because they are unable to move around the city due to a lack of financial resources. We are enabling the right to the city as well as access to life – highlighted the special secretary for Women's Policies and Promotion, Joyce Trindade.
The Secretary of Transport, Maína Celidonio, also participated in the event and praised the initiative.
Women may have access to the benefit:
– In situations of domestic or family violence that are attended to/monitored by the Chiquinha Gonzaga Specialized Center for Women's Assistance, Casa da Mulher da Carioca Dinah Coutinho and Casa da Mulher Carioca Tia Doca and that require continuous monitoring.
– Who prove residence in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
– 18 years of age or older, with the exception of teenage mothers.
– Proving a monthly per capita family income of up to half the minimum wage.
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