Refurbished Chuuk Women's Council Building to Soon Have Domestic Violence Counselling Services - the first in FSM

The Chuuk Women Council’s Tongen Inepwineu Counseling Service responds to, and aims to prevent, gender-based violence (GBV), including domestic violence in FSM. Support from the Australian Government has funded the building’s renovation, cost of staff to operate the GBV counselling service over three years, with the service to include advocacy work, training and mentoring of support volunteer counsellors at the community level. CWC and its partners work collaboratively to combat gender-based violence, and find ways to provide services.