An article appeared in the New Jersey The
Star Ledger on November 22, 2009 and talks about a new
advertising campaign to alert Hispanic women about how to obtain help with
domestic violence.
The campaign is a billboard campaign which alerts Hispanic community that they
can get help with domestic violence. The billboards are in Spanish with the message, "Just like
flowers, we grow with love and respect. Not with abuse."
Latina women often
don’t get help for domestic violence because their either don’t know how to get
it, or fear that if they tell authorities they’ll get deported. The
purpose is to really educate Latina women on
domestic violence so that they don’t have to suffer in silence any longer.