Safecity Activities
Social Barriers to Education
Anu Salelkar is a Program and Outreach Officer with Safecity based in Mumbai and responsible for on the ground work in Mumbai, Pune and Goa. She has an M. Phil degree in Women’s studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and a Masters in Sociology from the Central [...]Read more
When little hands can build a playground in Jagdamba Camp
Jyotsna is a Lawyer in the making and is surrounded by various books which are beyond her area of study. She has aspirations and dreams for a better world with better lives for all. Showing deviance, she would personally prefer to go towards this journey of change not through [...]Read more
Painting a Change in Bhalswa
Jyotsna is a Lawyer in the making and is surrounded by various books which are beyond her area of study. She has aspirations and dreams for a better world with better lives for all. Showing deviance, she would personally prefer to go towards this journey of change not through [...]Read more
Safecity’s Campus Ambassador Programme
Duration : July – September Safecity is a platform that crowdsources personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public spaces. This data which maybe anonymous, gets aggregated as hot spots on a map indicating trends at a local level. The idea is to make this data [...]Read more
International Anti-Street Harassment Week: Take a Stand against Street Harassment
The Digital Empowerment Foundation collaborated with us on an online campaign to spread awareness about 'Preventing Sexual Harassment through Digital Tools.'Read more
Reclaiming Public Spaces through Sports: Bandra Plot
On the 16th of April, the last day of the Anti- Street Harassment week, 13 girls from Bandra Plot occupied a space generally used by boys. During our campaign with the girls of Bandra Plot, it became clear that the girls did not access many public spaces for a variety of reasons- [...]Read more
Reclaiming Public Spaces through Sports: Indira Nagar
On the April 13, 2016, 35 girls from the community of Indira Nagar occupied a space generally used by boys to play a few matches of Kabaddi. During our campaign with Vacha, several girls of Indira Nagar spoke about feeling unsafe in Karkare Garden- an open space located near [...]Read more
Women’s Day Celebration: Bandra Plot
On March 10, 2016, Safecity celebrated International Women’s Day with 25 women and girls of Bandra Plot, a community located in Jogeshwari East. The event began with talking about Women’s Day, the historical significance attached to it and why it should be celebrated- and how we [...]Read more
Women’s Day Mela: Indira Nagar
Safecity celebrated this year’s Women’s Day with the women of Indira Nagar (Sanjay Gandhi Nagar) in Jogeshwari east, Mumbai and the on ground team of Vacha Charitable Trust, our partner organisation. The event was well attended, by around 70 women in the afternoon of March 8, [...]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