About us
#ȘiEuReușesc
Our missions
Survivors. The term we use for women whose bravery can encourage other women who are still facing abuse and feel like they are alone or don’t know what to do. This project aims to create local support groups and mutual support networks that save lives. The first step is the belief that ICanDoItToo.
A.L.E.G. is…
An NGO that has been working to prevent and combat violence against women and to promote gender equality since 2004. A.L.E.G. is active both at a local level, in the county of Sibiu, as well as nationally.
Our specialized services include information and counselling for victims of family violence and their children. In 2017, based on a need expressed by our beneficiaries, we initiated the campaign #SiEuReușesc. Visit our website to find out more.
Local partners around the country: Pas Alternativ (Brașov), ANAIS (Bucharest), Gr.Ab (Satu Mare).
#ȘiEuReușesc is…
a first step towards freedom.
The moment she thinks IcanDoItToo, a victim of violence takes the first step towards becoming a survivor. Though the journey is not easy, taking the first step is very important, and it takes support and examples of other women who have made it.
Since we are stronger together, we support the creation of local support groups and so offer women an opportunity to share their experience, overcome their fears and grow ever more powerful. Are you a survivor? Start a support group in your city or join an existing group.
Our history
2024
June
#ȘiEuReușesc & InStareDeBine
For 10 months, we have been running the project “Strengthening the #ȘiEuReușesc survivors Network” which had as its main goal supporting victims of domestic violence and promoting healthy and autonomous relationships.
2021
July
Survivors Forum, 4th edition
After a year in which the pandemic kept them apart, the women of the Survivors Network were together again with the aim of discussing the challenges and successes of the last year, integrating new members and celebrating the courage needed to break the vicious circle of violence, especially in times of pandemic.
2020
November
The Survivors Forum, 3rd edition – brave together and in the pandemic
The pandemic has worsened domestic violence by isolating many women with their aggressors and making access to classic intervention services more difficult. The communities of survivors are proving all the more valuable – the #SiEuReusesc communities, where women communicate safely and help each other, with guidance from professionals specialized in combating domestic violence, who provide access to psychosocial and legal assistance.
December
#ȘiEuReușesc Cluj Napoca Community
The #ȘiEuReușesc support group aims to create a safe space where the survivors and the counselors who lead it provide support and social support to women who are still in abuse or who are in the process of separating and regaining autonomy and psycho-emotional safety.
2019
March
#ȘiEuReușesc Bucharest Community
The project aims to increase long-term autonomy and solidarity in peer support networks for women and children affected by domestic violence, through collaboration with the ANAIS Association.
June
Romanian Survivors Forum – 2nd edition, June 11
“Brave together” is the message under which the members of the Survivors Network gathered in Bucharest, at the second edition of the Survivors Forum, initiated by the A.L.E.G. Association, as a meeting place for women who have faced domestic violence and want to get involved in supporting other women.
2018
March
Romanian Survivors Forum, 7th-8th of march 2018
We know that 1 in 3 women in Romania is a victim of violence at some point in her life, but too little is said about women who have managed to overcome violence and what they would recommend to other women.
July
#ȘiEuReușesc Brașov support group
When we entered the Pas Alternativ Association headquarters, the room was almost full. What for some may just be a meeting, for us was a lesson in courage, openness, authenticity, and vulnerability, in its most beautiful aspects.
2017
October
Tell us how you made it
„Tell us how you made it!”, is an invitation launched in October 2017, for women who have overcome a situation of abuse to share their story, keeping personal identifying data secret.
November
#ȘiEuReușesc SIBIU support group
If you are from Sibiu and are looking for the path to a life without violence, fear or abuse, the Support Group organized by A.L.E.G. is here to help you!