New York: Apna Brooklyn Community Center organized a domestic violence awareness program in Brooklyn, New York.

The event was aimed at educating people living in the United States about domestic violence awareness and resources to get help.

A number of people are forced to endure torture due to lack of information while living abroad.

The program began with the recitation of the Holy Quran.

Apna Community Center Chairman Parvez Siddiqui thanked the guests of the event and said that through this program an effort has been made to establish a platform to control all incidents of violence. Usually, every other house has a story, but people usually avoid sharing their plight with others.

Informing the participants of the program about the aims and objectives of the organization and the event, Erum Hanif, Chief Executive Officer of Apna Brooklyn Community Center, said that our aim is to serve the community and help them lead safe, healthy and fulfilling lives.

Afshan, the representative of Apna Community Center, while addressing the participants, said that along with all the financial and legal services, we also have some responsibility as to what measures we can take to prevent gender violence.

Anne Patterson, Deputy Commissioner of Domestic and Gender-Based Violence of New York City, who was invited to the program, said that Family Justice Center is present in every borough and that the Center provides all kinds of support to victims of domestic violence.

In addition to legal services, assistance from police officers is provided to prevent domestic violence, while psychologists and Psychic Trusts are also contacted to deal with mental health issues.

Participating in the program, Tanisha, the community manager of Chez Bank, informed about her services for the community.

Domestic violence police officers from the New York Police Department’s Sixty Precinct, and Anna from Safe Horizon were also present in the program.

Anna said that Safe Horizon is an agency that has two representatives in each precinct, and provides services to those in need, such as legal services, child support, food shelter, mental health.

Many victims do not file a police report, but now a police report will not be required to benefit from the services provided by Safe Horizon, and with its Brooklyn Community Center, Safe Horizon is committed to better serve the community.

“What I want to talk about today is domestic violence, how domestic violence and legal issues are related to each other and our initiative,” said Burhan Carroll, a legal fellow at Cair-New York, a legal services organization that participated in the program. What services does it provide for them?

Izunira Ahmed from the office of Center Evan Chu, who participated in the event, thanked her community center for the domestic violence program and described the topic of the program as very important.

In the program, Apna Brooklyn Community Center gave a presentation to the event participants about the awareness of domestic violence and the efforts to prevent it. The participants also raised slogans against domestic violence

At the end of the program, a cake cutting ceremony was also held.

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