SIEMPREVIVAS RUM systemizes their model so that it can be replicated in other contexts 

The Mayagüez University Campus project for prevention and attention to gender-based violence presents a study that documents the lessons learned from three decades of building collective knowledge.

In the photo, Jocelyn Géliga Vargas, Zulnette García Ramos, Luisa Seijo Maldonado, Virgen Ramos Rodríguez, and Suzette Álvarez Soto.

Published in Todas PR

(Mayagüez, Puerto Rico- August 20, 2025) The support program for gender-based violence survivors SIEMPREVIVAS of the Mayagüez University Campus (RUM in Spanish) of the University of Puerto Rico built a gender-based violence prevention model from the public university system. Throughout more than three decades of work, the organization has been dedicated to transformado the pain of around 1,400 women who participated via processes of healing, support, and education. Since 2014, SIEMPREVIVAS RUM has been systemizing participants’ experiences in order to facilitate the replication of their work model. The result, a study titled Lessons from feminista practice to accompany, educate and transform, was presented on tuesday in RUM.

Zulnette García Ramos, movement weaver of the Women’s Foundation in Puerto Rico, the foundation that facilitated the study, participated in the programado and shared her experiences that are now a part of the study. “I arrived at SIEMPREVIVAS RUM carrying guilt that didn’t belong to me, with wounds I didn’t know how to name, and the sensations that I was alone… The support group showed me that I wasn’t broken, that my story was echoed in the stories of others, and that the pain is not an individual matter, but a consequence of oppressive structures that we can and should transform”. García Ramos affirmed tha the study proves the educational, movilizing, and formative power of the leadership that feminist accompaniment rooted in community and articulated with the academia is capable of achieving.