Collaborating with Peace Corps Volunteers, Witness Project International on Tuesday widened its campaign against street harassment to Berbice.
The campaign, funded by the Margaret Clemons Foundation (a New York-based non-profit organisation), was launched earlier in the year.
It aims to raise awareness of the issue of violence being directed towards women and girls in the form of harassment on the streets and to inform men that it is unacceptable behaviour to call out to women about their body parts on the road and make lewd sexual advances.
Since conceptualising the campaign in July of 2014, Witness Project has been working towards using photography and marketing to bring the issue of street harassment to the front burner in the discussion of gender-based violence. Towards this end, posters discouraging street harassment in every form are being erected at strategic locations around the country and the group is hosting a series of public discussions.
One such discussion was held at the New Amsterdam Prison Officers’ Club on Tuesday. Those who attended included Peace Corps Volunteers, prison officers and inmates of the prison, representatives of the
