Haut-Saint-François Women’s Center, La Passerelle

What is a Women Centre?

The Centre des femmes du Haut-Saint-François La Passerelle is an feminist community organization. Its mission is to provide a welcoming, safe(r), caring and inclusive space which defends and promotes human rights, using an intersectional feminist* approach. The Centre welcomes women, trans, non-binary and gender creative people.

Through services, educational activities and collective action, we aim to achieve the following objectives:

•         Break isolation
•         Develop the capacity and power to act
•         Foster social engagement
•         Improve living conditions
•         Combat prejudice, discrimination and gender-based violence

APPROACH

*The Center work is rooted in an intersectional feminist approach, which recognizes that people occupy different positions in society and may have privileges. We acknowledge and value all people’s experiences and life paths, taking into account multiple forms of discrimination. Through this approach, the Centre aims for collective change and the improvement of living conditions.

The Centre also fosters a popular education approach.

VALUES

Our work is aimed at dismantling systems of oppressions that generate poverty, violence, discrimination and exclusion.

Our values are equity, social justice, freedom, openness, solidarity and respect.

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