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Local men to wear high heels Saturday to benefit Family Transition Place

June 16, 2016   ·   0 Comments

They are husbands, fathers, sons, grandfathers: local men who will be sporting pink high heel shoes this Saturday, beginning at the Orangeville Town Hall, to help stop violence against women and girls.

MENtors is a volunteer group of local men and the goal of their second annual  “Walk in HER Shoes” event is to raise awareness about domestic violence and support the work of Family Transition Place, which provides services to women and girls who have been abused in Dufferin-Caledon.

“Domestic violence has long been thought of as a ‘women’s issue,’ ” said Pete Renshaw, MENtors Chair. “But it’s not. We as men have to step up, take action and put an end to this.  This is our symbolic act of walking in a woman’s shoes to try and better understand the issues surrounding violence against women in our culture. ”

Starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, boys and men will be donning high heels (supplied at the event) to walk, sprint, crawl or stumble in solidarity towards ending the cycle of violence against women.  All money raised from the event will support education initiatives to help break the cycle of violence.

“MENtors is so important in engaging men in the effort to end male violence against women,” said Norah Kennedy, Executive Director of Family Transition Place. “They are allies for us in raising the awareness of men’s roles in our work.”

This walk is for anyone who has a woman or girl in their life that they care about and wants to make the world a safer and better place for them. It’s also for anyone who believes in equality and wants to help build an even healthier community.

MENtors is a volunteer committee made up of men from the Dufferin and Caledon communities that are committed to ending the cycle of violence against women.

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