The Save the Children programme called Ad Ali spiegate (Spreading their Wings) proposes an integrated approach to combat gender-based violence, domestic violence and witnessed violence, delivered in collaboration with regional partners, such as anti-violence centres and shelters.

Among other actions, the programme includes the provision of grants for mother-child households. "Grants are extremely flexible tools for caring tailored to the needs of the household and can be focused on: the independence and empowerment of women (independence grants), household access to positive and growing experiences, to improve both the personal well-being of children and their mothers, and the mother-child relationship based on the principle that the well-being of a single member of the household inevitably reflects on the others (psycho-educational grants). The interventions can be centred on play and socialisation (recreational grants), or the recovery and enhancement of personal skills and talents (training grants)".

The news [6] on the initiative published on Save the Children's website reports the story of a mother and her daughter who participated in the programme.

Other materials and news can be found on this site under the topic Gender-based violence [3] and  Domestic violence [4] accessible from the "Topics" navigation menu.