Spain
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The aim of this activity was to offer several female Erasmus students the possibility to participate in a self-defence workshop to learn how to defend themselves in possible dangerous situations. The motivation for this is that every day in many countries around the world women are harassed or even assaulted when they walk alone in the street. There are many women who suffer from this kind of acts and live in fear of walking home alone at night. This is the reason for the creation of this workshop, so that in case this kind of events happen, the women who receive it will know how to defend themselves in a hypothetical situation of danger.
We contacted an instructor specialised in self-defence and we gave the workshop together with him in a park in the city of Granada: Tico Medina. This park is very large and gave us the possibility to maintain social distance at all moments. There were three groups at three different times, in which the participants were put in pairs to put into practice the teachings that the instructor was giving them. No previous knowledge of any kind of discipline was necessary for this activity, its approach was for anyone interested in learning how to defend themselves. In addition, the coordinators accompanying the Erasmus students also had the opportunity to put these self-defence techniques into practice. We recommend this type of activity to any section as we consider it to be very necessary and very useful. The option of offering a mixed advocacy workshop for anyone can be explored. A face mask was used at all times by all the participants.
