Roccella, 'the Rescue Suitcase completes the institutional system'

Governments and politics can do a lot, and in recent years we have intervened in the system of preventing and combating violence against women with great determination. But a system is stronger the more it manages to network, and a network that works can be seen first of all in the most difficult passages. An experience like the Rescue Suitcase does not replace the institutional system, on the contrary it supports and completes it. It is a very important complementarity. No one can tackle a complex phenomenon like violence against women alone.

This was said by the Minister for Family, Birth and Equal Opportunities, Eugenia Roccella, who spoke at the presentation of the Rescue Suitcase Manual, which took place in the Tiber Room of the Lazio Region, promoted by Salvamamme which has so far helped over 2,200 women and children to escape violence.

The minister signed the preface of the volume, created to collect and systematize the good practices developed by the Salvamamme association in twelve years of activity in support of women and children fleeing violence.

"Institutions, law enforcement agencies, judiciary, health and social services, anti-violence centres, shelters and the Third Sector - added Roccella - have different skills and responsibilities, which must not be confused but must know how to integrate. The network built over the years around the Suitcase shows precisely this: subsidiarity strengthens the public response, making it more widespread and closer to the person".