violence from a psychological and social point of view

Hamaya Association held its third meeting of its General Assembly headed by the former Chairman of the Board of Directors Samira Al-Ghamdi and its members, which was organized under the supervision of the Women''s Supervision Office in Makkah Al-Mukarramah Region.

The General Director of the Family Protection Association, Iman Al-Harbi, explained that the administrative and financial report from 1431 to 1434 was discussed and the discharge of the Board of Directors that ended its session, while the General Assembly unanimously renewed a decision to renew the Board of Directors with its nine members and identify Dr. Fatima Al-Aqeel as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association.

For her part, the society’s media and social official, Hanadi Al-Balawi, said that the Charitable Family Protection Association is the first specialized association to deal with psychological, social, legal and medical violence issues for the benefit of women and children.

The association was established under the supervision of the Ministry of Social Affairs with individual efforts at its inception, but formally five years ago, and it received many reports of violence from women and children as there are many goals that the association seeks to present, including setting up a plan to protect the family, in pursuit of a community He believed in non-violence, knowing its basis, the main reason for it, how to deal with it, and raising awareness among members of the community, and this comes with support and guidance from the Ministry of Social Affairs, as it is the largest supporter of the Family Protection Association, and then the support comes from businessmen, as there are families that the association has guaranteed to provide housing Safe for them and furnishing, with the help of businessmen until rehabilitation is completed.

Al-Balawi said the association has a contributing role with the Social Protection Committee in Makkah Al-Mukarramah region in receiving reports and complaints and intervening to unite appropriate measures to deal with cases of domestic violence.

The media official, Hanadi al-Balawi, stated that the association is trying and striving to reach its vision to the largest segment of society by conducting training courses, giving lectures, whether in commercial centers, hospitals, schools, and any body in which there are many community members, by introducing the association and its objectives and preparing training courses and workshops on children''s rights And women and proper methods of dealing with them.

Al-Balawi explained that when cases of violence come to the association, their case is studied socially and psychologically, and then we raise the case to social affairs, and if the case is required, we raise it to the police, and the association is not satisfied with that, as most of the battered women have issues pending in the courts, such as divorce, and the role of the association is to provide volunteer lawyers. To stand with them until they get a divorce. Al-Balawi pointed out that the association has a great role in protecting the family and the child, as the cases in which violence occurs are in a very bad condition, so the social role of the association comes by providing the social and psychological role and it is through psychological sessions where the association provides volunteer psychologists to rehabilitate them psychologically and socially.

Al-Balawi indicated that the association has a rehabilitation program for battered families, "the child-mother", to restore them to their normal lives and integrate them into society by conducting psychological sessions for them through the psychologists present in the association, and if the case needs to be transferred for treatment, the association sends it to psychiatric hospitals, in cooperation with the mental health hospital. Al-Balawi pointed out that the number of cases of violence that reach the association or even hospitals and social affairs are only a few of the real cases