by SWOVA Team | Apr 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
During the month of May in 2020, a community wide survey was launched throughout the Southern Gulf Islands on Consent and Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. The survey was funded by the Status of Women Canada as part of an on-going project spear headed by Salt...
by SWOVA Team | Jun 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
by Kiran Dhingra, MSW, RSW, Executive Director As I write these words, it is a few days after the Take Back the Night march that took place in our community last Friday June 10th, 2020. The event was organized from a ground swell of supporters in response to a woman...
by SWOVA Team | Jul 28, 2020 | From the Headlines
The New Yorker magazine’s recent cover photo is of thirty-five women who allege that they were sexually assaulted by actor Bill Cosby over a period of decades. Some of the alleged victims have come forth on their own for years but their claims were hushed up, silenced...
