June, 2017
Safecity Monthly Newsletter : June 2017
Safecity is growing exponentially and we’re constantly working hard to translate our vision to reality. Because we don’t want you to miss out on our work, we’ve decided to put together a monthly column to tell you about what we’ve been up to. You can sign up for our newsletter [...]Read more
Creating Awareness about Child Sexual Abuse in Patna
Naina Jha is the Program and Outreach Officer at Patna. She is a PR professional working with Greymatters Communications. She has worked with hospitals, advertising and PR agencies and has been working with ICWA to educate slum kids since 2005. She has also worked as a freelancer [...]Read more
Representing Safecity at the Global Diplomacy Lab, Argentina
Our Founder & CEO, Elsa D’Silva, was recently in Argentina for the Global Diplomacy Lab (GDL) which is an initiative of the German Foreign Office and sponsored by the BMW Foundation amongst others. As a Responsible Leader of the BMW Foundation and an awardee of the [...]Read more
Addressing Child Sexual Abuse
Rahi foundation, on 23rd June,2017 , held an insightful chat on the topic "CHILD SEX ABUSE". Read more
Sexual Violence: A Global Pandemic / 17th-23rd June 2017
Sexual Violence: A Global Pandemic Written by Soyra Gune and Nikunj Morarka Edited by Vandita Morarka Policy and Legal Team Sexual violence is a global pandemic. One in three women experience sexual or physical violence – most likely from their intimate partner, [...]Read more
Looking at Transport through a Gendered lens
A Colombian and French national, Jimena Serrano is based in Washington DC where she spends her time creating economic opportunities for women in the energy and agricultural sectors in Latin America for a development bank. Her prior experience includes the construction of indices [...]Read more
Know Our Team- Caring and Contributing to Society
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. Vihang Jumle is the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Safecity. Currently [...]Read more
How does safety impact access to education
On 16th June, Sharda Vishwanathan @visharda conducted a Tweetchat on the necessity of providing safe education to all. The chat began by discussing the various factors that restrict young girls from accessing education and also those factors that create a hostile learning [...]Read more
Sexual Violence: A Global Pandemic / 10-16th June 2017
Sexual Violence: A Global Pandemic Sexual violence is a global pandemic. One in three women experience sexual or physical violence – most likely from their intimate partner, according to a report from the World Health Organization. There is an urgent need to increase [...]Read more
She Prays for Resurrection
Amanda Gorman is the Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of the United States and Founder of Onepenonepage.org. Her first collection of poetry, entitled “The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough”, was published by Penmanship Books in 2015, and her work has appeared in The Wall Street [...]Read more