The Rose Campaign is a national advocacy campaign to end violence against women, girls and gender diverse people. The campaign was created to commemorate 14 young women who were murdered at l’Ecole Polytechnique.
Gender-based violence is preventable, and true equity in our communities cannot be achieved without stopping violence.
The Rose Campaign is a call to action on violence against women. Each year from November 25 to December 10, we bring light what we can all do to make the lives of women, girls and gender diverse people safer.
How YWCA Edmonton Takes Action on Gender-Based Violence
We all have a role to help end gender-based violence in our communities. Supporting YWCA Edmonton helps ensure thousands of individuals will receive the essential violence prevention and recovery programs they need to live healthy lives, free of violence.
Since 1907, YWCA Edmonton has been supporting and empowering women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Violence prevention and recovery are at heart of many of our programs:
- Counselling Services offers complex trauma support to survivors of violence;
- Youth Programming teaches youth essential life skills that will not only help them recognize violence in their life, but help them prevent it for themselves and others;
- Healing retreats offered at Camp Yowochas connect families who have experienced violence with the opportunity to heal and rediscover who they are;
- Our Advocacy works with all levels of government to alleviate immediate community need and create widespread systemic impact to improve the lives of women, girls and gender minorities in our community, our province, and beyond.
Donate Today
Please help us in our ambitious goal to raise $290,000 for YWCA Edmonton’s violence prevention and recovery programs. Donate today.
Thank you for your generous support of our work to end gender-based violence as we create equity, opportunity and choice for all.
