PhotoVoice
Photovoice, a window on the sexual health and emotional lives of migrant women.
In 2020, FEA was asked by the Spanish association Por Ti Mujer to participate in a consortium as part of an Erasmus+ project. The consortium is made up of 5 associations in 4 countries: CACIS-Maison d'Ella in France, Port ti Mujer in Spain (project coordinator), Programma Integra in Italy and Arab women solidarity association in Belgium.
The project was implemented between October 2020 and October 2021.
Photovoice is a project around emotional life and sexual health. The Photovoice method is based on the strength of the story and the strength of the images. This is participatory action research, allowing participants to strengthen their knowledge and skills, and whose objective is to bring about social change, in particular through communication and advocacy activities based on the results of the project. .
Between October and December 2020, consortium meetings took place to launch the project. Training on the Photovoice tool was also organized by the consortium coordinator, the Por Ti Mujer association.
Mobilization of participants in France
11 women wanted to participate in the project.
They come from 6 West African countries, are between 25 and 47 years old and all have different profiles.
This diversity was essential to highlight the different issues encountered by women.
The participants first took part in 5 workshops on Women's Rights and SRHR, the PhotoVoice methodology, symbolic representation and how to combine SRHR and photos, the selection of photos for the final exhibition and writing of captions and the writing abstracts.
For this project, FEA chose to mobilize a group of 11 young women aged 18 to 40 from immigrant backgrounds. The participants were supported in choosing a theme of their choice and on which they wish to express themselves among everything that Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health involve.
Subsequently, each person took photos that were meaningful to them, related to the chosen theme. They accompanied these photos with captions on the meaning and scope of the message they wanted to convey.
In the end, 12 photos were selected and accompanied and 2 abstracts: the first on the
forced marriages, and the second on comprehensive sexuality education.
FEA, for its part, developed a poster presenting the project and selected two photos per
partners in the project to complete the exhibition
(22 posters in total).
Exhibitions in Paris
Several exhibitions took place in France. The 1st was organized in partnership with the European Network of Migrant Women (ENoWM) and AWSA-BE as part of the conference on “Access to fundamental rights of migrant women in France” in June 2021.
FEA, for its part, organized an exhibition at the Pavillon des Canaux, with an opening meeting on November 27, 2021, on the occasion of the world day against violence against women, in the presence of the deputy mayor of the 19th in charge of gender equality, human rights and the fight against discrimination and another exhibition at the Center Paris Anim Pôle Simon Lefranc in March 2022.
A partnership with the sexual health centers of the City of Paris.
Thanks to a partnership with the sexual health center of the Public Health Department of the City of Paris, the exhibition toured the 6 sexual health centers in Paris from October 18 to November 25, 2022:
from October 18 to 24 at the Paris Center Sexual Health Center. Hospital.
from October 24 to 31 at the Ridder Medical-Social Center.
from October 31 to November 7 at the Belleville Medical-Social Center.
November 7 to 14 at Curnonsky Health Center.
from November 14 to 21 at the Cavé Sexual Health Center.
from November 21 to 28 at the Gaston Tessier Sexual Health Center.
The exhibition was also offered at the Pépinière Mathis from December 6, 2022 to January 10, 2023.
The exhibition has certainly not finished traveling to public and associative partners!