Child soldiers

In the first year,men's cooperatives will have to be economically viable to enable volunteers to work against domestic violenc while simultaneously sustaining their families.Part of the profits from their common income generating activities is essential for the self-sustenace of the project, our office and work.Investment funds for such common enterprises would have to come from the volunteers themselves as well as donations from goodwill and well wishers.Through awareness seminars financial appeals can be made from the communities themselves.
Such funds would be spent on social education, awareness and sensitisation on issues of domestic violence at all levels of society; seminars for schools,law enforcement,political and civil administrators,faith-based groups,cultural institutions, social organizations, legal and economic systems.The support of law enforcement, political and civil administration is vital for the change of attitudes towards and policies on domestic violence.
In the second year,with adequate funds, violent and abusive cultural,political and traditional systems would have to be challenged through social campaigns.Mens groups would have to actively support and complement womens' groups that work against domestic violence.
In the third year society would have to be involved in comprehensively rejecting all forms of exposure to violence in general(such as capial punishment and war) and domestic violence in particular. At the grass roots and national levels, legal systems that do not take the nature of male perpetrated violence into account would have to be denounced and ammended.Active change would need to occur at all levels of social and political structure.Laws would need to be enacted against any exposure of children to violence and especially domestic violence. The nature, causes and effects of domestic violence in relation to community mental health would need to be taught as a mundatory subject in schools,universities and other institutions of learning and government would have to include in her budget funding for psycho-socio economic enterprises such as counselling and recovery centers for violent people, sex and drug addicts, alcoholics, refugees and other victims of her own violence-sustaining and regenerating culture.