APIS Centre Foundation for Equity, receive women at risk and victims of domestic violence. This center of external attention receive women at risk and victims of domestic violence. There a psychological and legal assistance is then provided to them. Amidst the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the team of the center has to readapt their assistance and started to attends by video calls the patient who accuses her partner of domestic abuse. In the same times APIS focused his work on receives donated to redistribute them to women beneficiaries. The center is open twice a week to provide a protective space for women beneficiaries. Since the start of the lockdown, the government of President AMLO has removed many subsidies intended for associations fighting against gender violence. It's the reason why the socials workers of this center have worked hand in hand and relentlessly to tirelessly to find solutions for women in need.

When the situation becomes too risky for abused women, there is a final escape route: shelters for battered women. Following augmentation of domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic many women have had to take refuge in them. The Fortaleza Comprehensive care center for women I.A.P is one of them.
In this confidential refuge, each woman has access to emotional and practical support, workshops, reintegration plan, training, psychological and medical support ...
In a spirit of mutual aid in the face of mistreatment, social workers and beneficiaries are linked to share their experiences and thus be able to move forward.

Edith is one of the beneficiaries of the Fortaleza shelter. She entered the shelter early in the pandemic, following her husband's attempted murder. Although traumatized, she remains positive about rebuilding her future life when she comes out of the shelter. Recently arrived in the shelter, she shares her room with these two children in the hope of being able to offer them a life far from violence.

After a 5-month stay in the Fortaleza shelter Edith was able to leave it in November 2020. Social workers at the shelter helped find new accommodation on the outskirts of Mexico City for her and her two children. So it is in a small 20m2 studio that she is now trying to build a new life for herself. Bitchy during her stay at the Edith refuge was able to train to claim a new job, but in the midst of the COVID-19 health crisis, job offers are very rare. Moreover, the government having established the school by Internet for all the children of the country because of the epidemic, it is difficult if not impossible for Edith to have these children looked after during her working time which does not facilitate her search for jobs.

APIS Centre Foundation for Equity, receives donated clothes and food for women at risk and victims of domestic violence, amidst the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Bag of donations collected by the APIS Center for women at risk. COVID-19 kit, and foods are distributed for free every week in the popular Michoacana district of Mexico City.

Consultation office of one of the outpatient centers of the Mexico City Women's Institute, LUNA. In the district of Parque, despite the epidemic, the center remains open 5 days a week. Since the start of the pandemic, calls to shelters reporting violence have increased by 60 to 80%. The center continues to provide psychological consultations while respecting health security measures.

Meeting of the association "Hombres por la equidad". This association, made up of ten members, has taken it upon itself since the start of the confinement to provide a free support group for violent men. Twice a week the men meet by video conference to talk about their excess of aggressiveness, accompanied by a psychologist, they learn to channel their anger in order to avoid domestic violence.

Control and emergency emergency call center in the city of Naucalpan, named C4. On average the C4 receives more than 800 calls per day. Since the start of the pandemic, calls for help for domestic violence have increased by more than 30% in just one month.

To respond to gender violence in cities classified as red alert for violence against women, the gender police was created in March 2016, composed of psychologists, lawyers and social workers, this a special unit is formed to respond situations of gender and family violence. Since the start of the Corona virus pandemic, domestic violence has increased considerably. In the city of Naucalpan, listed in the Red Alert on gender violence, the gender police specializing in violence against women intervene with the support of the C4.

The Fortaleza shelter is a temporary protective space for women and their children who are forced to flee their homes due to domestic violence. Each user of the refuge is held for 3 months without the possibility of leaving the center for their protection. Since the beginning of the pandemic calls to shelters reporting violence have increased by 60 to 80% and asylum requests in these spaces have increased by 30%, according to the Red Nacional de los Refugios.