May, 2016
Safety in the Face of Climate Change
As Safecity is covering SDG 13 – Climate Action – in the month of May, our brilliant Twitter Curator Renita Siqueira @renitasiqueira held a Tweetchat on ‘Safety in the Face of Climate Change.’ The discussion was rich and covered important issues of impact [...]Read more
Women & Climate Action
Avijit Mondal from Kolkata is pursuing his Master’s Degree in Mathematics. He is a bibliophile with a passion for food and is a movie buff. Safecity is his first venture into Blogging. One of his favourite quotes – “One could never count the moons that shimmer [...]Read more
Safecity Emerging Leader – Punita
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 [...]Read more
Women- Affected by Climate Change yet Effective in Climate Action
Renita Siqueira is a Communications Officer at Safecity. She has completed her Bachelors in Mass Media from Mumbai. Finding joy in the little things of life, art, craft and fabric painting are some of the things she loves. A fervent reader since childhood, she finds solace [...]Read more
Know Our Team: Building a Better Society for Future Generations
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. Ashwini Syed is Safecity’s Training Manager and has been conducting [...]Read more
Building Resilience: Women as Climate Actors
All of last week we had focused discussions around SDG 13 – Climate Action from a gendered lens. Our curator, Latha Sankarnarayanan was fantastic and gave us a lot of valuable insights in this subject. The week culminated with a Tweetchat on the role of women and girls in [...]Read more
Below #2 Degrees Path – Climate Action
Last Saturday, our curator Latha Sankarnarayanan held a TweetChat on ways of reducing carbon emissions and combating climate change in our daily life. The tweetchat progressed into a discussion on the effects of climate change on women and women’s role in climate action. [...]Read more
Sustainable Cities & Communities: Increasing Accessibility for Women
Bency Ramakrishnan is student of Law and Public Policy. My intention to bring about a change in the society has always been guided by my strongest belief in the right to equality, from socio-economic and gender perspectives. I wish to witness a society around me that is not a [...]Read more
Why Public Transport needs to work for Women
Our incredible Twitter Curator, Azra Khan @azrakhan87, held a TweetChat on ‘Why Public Transport needs to work for Women too!’. Many people came forward and shared not only their grievances but also solutions. Check out the interesting exchange below :Read more
Why Safecity is encouraging people to share their stories- Read on!
Sanjay Camp is a neighborhood in Ambedkar Nagar of New Delhi. When Safecity started working with Action India and the people of Sanjay Camp, we knew a lot of the issues even before stories were shared, silences were broken, and a campaign was born. Sexual violence in the public [...]Read more