Based on the premise that gender equality must be a fundamental value in society, the project "EGALIS: Gender equality through social change and education" works in the area that generates the most profound change: education.
From February 2021, in 3 multi-ethnic rural communities in Călărași County (Luica, Soldanu and Curcani), the Center for Education and Human Rights Association, in partnership with Bjerkaker LearningLab from Norway, involves women in community events, reading sessions, information and awareness raising campaigns, addressing issues related to human rights, gender equality, stereotypes, health education.
A warm conversation about gender equality with Laura Albu, President of Community Safety and Mediation Center Foundation and Executive President of Romanian Women’s Lobby and Jorgen Lorenzen, Director of the Norwegian Association Foreningen Hedda
„We know how to say what hurts us, we know how to talk, how to take care of ourselves and now, if we speak our mind, people look at us differently”, says Crenguța, one of the 500 women from Argeș and Ialomița counties with whom Filia worked. Later, she also became their colleague within the organization, as a community facilitator.