February, 2016
Endometriosis Awareness
Our Twitter Curator, Prerna @tweet_prerna, held a Tweetchat on February 27, 2016 on Endometriosis. It’s a disorder in which tissue that normally lines the inside of your uterus — the endometrium — grows outside your uterus (endometrial implant). Check out the informative [...]Read more
Safecity Emerging Leader: Jessica
Safecity is celebrating the journey of people who have emerged as leaders as our campaigns progressed in their communities through our blog series “Safecity Emerging Leaders“. Read the inspiring stories of these individuals who are passionate about making their neighbourhoods [...]Read more
Know Our Team: A Rights Based Approach to Safety
Know Our Team is a series that attempts to bring to you the stories of our team, share our experiences, why we do what we do and special moments that have left an indelible mark in each of our lives. Anu Salelkar is a Program and Outreach Officer with Safecity based in Mumbai [...]Read more
Sexism in Pop Culture & Life
Our Twitter Curator last week, Fairy Dharawat held a TweetChat on ‘Sexism in Pop Culture and our Daily Life’ on February 20, 2016. Here’s the interesting exchange that took place. https://storify.com/Iridescent98/sexism-in-pop-culture-life That was all for this [...]Read more
Volunteer Experience: Community Art Project on Women’s Safety and Empowerment
Invited by the US Consulate General, Mumbai, American mural artist and educator Joel Bergner, local artist Krishna Sharma, and local students, including some volunteers from Safecity worked together to create a stunning mural with a women’s empowerment theme for the Kala Ghoda [...]Read more
Safecity Know Your Rights Workshop at Kehkasha
On the 13th of February, Safecity was invited to be a part of ‘Kehkasha – a galaxy of stars’ an endeavor by Avanti Foundation and The Blue Ribbon Movement to bring together thousands of girls who have walked through the journey of leadership. Safecity conducted an hour long “Know [...]Read more
5 things that make the Sanjay Camp Campaign awesome!
Safecity is working with Action India and Restless Development in Sanjay Camp of Ambedkar Nagar, New Delhi, in making public spaces of this neighborhood safer and accessible through data, technology and meaningful community engagement. The campaign was launched in Oct’15 [...]Read more
First Safecity Youth Workshops in Bangalore
On February 6, 2016 Safecity was invited to conduct two workshops on “Gender Sensitivity and Sexual Harassment” at Alliance University in Bangalore with 16 students from B.Com Sem II and 47 students from Sem VI students. The sessions began with a small activity on [...]Read more
Safecity Workshop with Community Women in Dharavi
On the 1st of February, Safecity was invited by MAVIM to conduct a workshop on gender and sexual violence with 19 women at Dharavi. This workshop was done as a part of a training of women in the community to build a self help group. Before this workshop, they had opened up Bank [...]Read more