Chuuk Women's Council Officially Launches FSM's First Violence Against Women Counselling Centre on International Women's Day

The Chuuk Women’s Council launched its new Tongen Inepwineu Counselling Centre, which translated means ‘Love of the Family’ Counselling Centre. It is the first crisis support centre for women survivors of violence in the Federated States of Micronesia and provides free, confidential and non-judgmental counselling and trained “safe counsellors” who provide counselling and support to survivors of domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment and child sexual abuse. To develop its crisis counselling project, Chuuk Women’s Council received funding and extensive on-going technical support from the Australian Government through Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development.