Strong Manchester Women
14: Priya Chopra
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For the last 20 years, this Strong Manchester Woman has been supporting Asian women and children who are victims of domestic abuse. It's a difficult cause and one that is made more challenging to address, by the cultural norms and traditions of the communities that she works in.
In this episode, your host Vic Elizabeth Turnbull speaks to Priya Chopra, CEO of the Saheli Asian Women’s Project. She has campaigned for policy changes on forced marriage and honour-based violence amongst the South Asian community, and has highlighted the extremities of this issue on a domestic and international level
Priya has spoke at the House of Commons and was part of the delegation to Prime Minister Theresa May’s consultation on the proposed changes to the Domestic Abuse Bill - ensuring that the issues faced by BAMER survivors of domestic abuse were highlighted to policy makers.
In this episode Priya talks about,
- The challenges of finding funding
- What it’s really like to work in a community where domestic violence is taboo
- How the women she supports, inspire her to keep going
- How this podcast has become as useful tool for her and her team
- Finding the courage to speak out against domestic violence
- Making people uncomfortable to instigate change
- The increased demand for the services she provides
- Her approach to risk taking
Links and information
- Find out more about / contact the Saheli Project visit their website here
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The podcast is inspired by the annual Strong Women campaign. The 14 women profiled in this podcast were selected for the 2019 campaign. For more information about the women visit The Pankhurst Trust’s website.
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This is the last episode of this series of the Strong Manchester Women podcast
Listen to the end of this episode to hear if they’ll be a Series 2.