October, 2018

Starting Conversations on Puberty and Menstruation
Naina Jha conducted an awareness workshop on Puberty & Menstruation on 8th October, 2018 at St. Albert School, Bihar. The workshop was for 85 girls of standards 9 & 10. She began by asking whether they had experienced any bodily or emotional changes to which they [...]Read more

Our Director felicitated at the launch of Vodafone Sakhi
Vodafone Idea Limited, India’s leading telecom service provider, recently launched Vodafone Sakhi, a first-of-its kind mobile based safety service, designed exclusively for women. Launched by PV Sindhu it comes with a number of features such as Emergency Alerts, Emergency [...]Read more

Mental Health and Women
On Friday, 12th Oct, Abdul Mufeez Shaheed @abdulmshaheed conducted a chat on Mental Health from a gendered approach to acknowledge two important international days that were celebrated during the week- World Mental Health Day and Day of the Girl. The chat began by asking the [...]Read more

Social Entrepreneurship- For and By Women
As a precursor to the Sankalp Global Forum, 2018, Safecity had a chat with them on Twitter @SankalpForum about Social Entrepreneurship- For and By Women keeping in mind their Gender Track. The chat began by acknowledging the #MeToo movement in India and asked the audience for [...]Read more
‘Menstruation and more’ Workshop in Patna
Naina Jha conducted a Puberty & Menstruation Workshop for the students of Std 8th of St. Albert’s High School on 8th October, 2018 in Patna. 35 girls attended the workshop. She began by asking whether they had heard of the word “Puberty” to which most of the girls answered [...]Read more

POSH Workshop at Arvind Mahila College
Naina Jha conducted an awareness workshop on the Prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women at the Workplace Act (POSH) at Arvind Mahila College on 19th September 2018 for 150 girls and 10 teachers. She began the workshop by talking about the concepts of gender and sex and the [...]Read more

Community Outreach in Sultanpuri, Delhi
Titas Ghosh, our Program and Outreach Officer in Delhi, has been visiting places in Delhi creating awareness about sexual harassment and child sexual abuse. She visited Sultanpuri in September and interacted with the women and community facilitating conversations on safety and [...]Read more

Creating awareness about Sexual Harassment in Bankipur, Patna
Naina Jha conducted a workshop on Prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women at the Workplace for the students of Standard 12 at Bankipur Girls School on 6th October, 2018. There were around 90 students and 10 teachers. It was in collaboration with Gupshup – Ek Sarthak [...]Read more

Addressing the Journalism Gender Gap; Bringing Environmental News Front & Centre
On 5th Oct, Raakhee Suryaprakash @10sunshinegal conducted a tweetchat combining two topics- “Addressing the Journalism Gender Gap and Bringing Environmental News Front & Centre.” The first half of the chat focused on the prevalent gender gap in journalism, the [...]Read more

Safecity short-film short-listed for the mBillionth Awards
Over hundreds of people from different fields having a common passion for technology gathered at Eros Hotel , Nehru Place on October 3, 2018 for 9th edition of mBillionth awards South Asia. The event began at 10:00 a.m. with a welcome speech by Mr. Osama Manzar, Founder and [...]Read more