PBL Domestic Violence

At Hornby High School, we have been doing PBL (Project Base Learning). We've been asked how we can have a positive impact on our community? We formed a group called "LA.RO.T.VIE" that came from our names. These group inlcudes Me, Roanne, Lahtia and Thamhie. To do this first we had to choose a topic. Me and my group chose Domestic Violence because it is something that we think affects too many people, not just in our community but also in the whole world specially women. We would like to find some way to make a difference.

To help us understand Domestic Violence further we needed to find websites that gave us information on what is what and what you can do. Here is a list of the websites we found:

Website Name	Link	Date we accessed site
Abuse Hurts	http://stopabuse.umich.edu/about/understanding.html	13/11/17
Wikipedia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence	13/11/17
Women's Refuge	https://womensrefuge.org.nz/	13/11/17
World Health Organization	http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs239/en/	13/11/17
New Zealand Police	http://www.police.govt.nz/	13/11/17

We then had to answer some questions about our topic:
Who is affected: Women and men, Adolescents, and Children
What are the issues? Injured, sick, suicide, and negative impact on community
When did it start and how has it progressed? Prior to the mid-1800's, most legal systems viewed wife beating as a valid exercise of a husband’s authority over his wife. One exception, however, was the 1641 Body of Liberties of the Massachusetts Bay colonists, which declared that a married woman should be “free from bodily correction or stripes by her husband.”

Where is this happening? This happens worldwide.

Why is this happening? Domestic Violence is happening because of the build-up tensions and a breakdown in communication. Stress and state in life or poverty are one of the biggest reason why domestic violence happens.

Then we had to say what we plan to do to help solve the issue:

We will first contact Women's Refuge Organization to ask if there are some victims of Domestic Violence in Hornby. If there are some, we would like to persuade other students in our school to come with us. We can suggest Women's Refuge to perform that their education programmes here in Hornby.