Safecity Monthly Updates – January 2023
Safecity is committed to creating safer communities for everyone. Our goal is to empower citizens by helping them understand the potential risks they could face in different neighbourhoods. We can do this by sharing our experiences or others anonymously and make these stories available for all. The platform serves law enforcement agencies with information on sexual harassment and other crimes occurring in public and private spaces. The platform’s data helps keep public spaces safe by enabling authorities to keep track of incidents and prevent sexual harassment in the future.
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Alumni Circles
The 1st virtual meet was held on Jan 18. Manjushree Patil spoke about inclusion and accessibility among children from a very young age in school.
The fellows then went into breakout rooms based on their thematic areas and discussed ways to fine-tune the ideas they had started working on in the in-person session that was held on 9th December.
The next session is scheduled for mid-Feb and the groups were encouraged to organize sessions among themselves in the meanwhile.
Rainbow Circles
Swati Misra, Makers Collective, conducted a virtual session on making minizines to tell their stories. The ambassadors were encouraged to make their own minizines expressing their journey and activities through the event.
On 27th January 2023, an in person meet was held at SIES College, Mumbai.12 Rainbow Ambassadors attended. The session was opened by Rob Anderson – Cultural Affairs Officer at the US. Consulate General in Mumbai. Kruthika – the Workplace Doodler did a session on Storytelling through Art, following which the students did a hands-on poster making activity.
Environment, Social & Governance Fellowship
The ESG fellows attended an interesting Masterclass by Richa Pant on Sustainable Finance, on 16th Jan, followed by an Interactive Q & A. The fellows are now preparing to pitch their projects to an audience and receive feedback at the RISE Summit in February.
Community Health Workers Training
941 community health workers have been trained in January. Total number trained till date: 8,737.
“Today we were invited to attend and facilitate the Sports Day of Anganwadi Workers. The Chief Guest Hon. SP. Sameer Shekh, Deputy CO Woman and Child, BDO of Satara, CDPO was also present at the event.” – Shital Vidhate, Program & Outreach Officer, Satara, RDF.
BeliEVE Season 3
We’re all set to kick off BeliEVE Season 3 with 3 exciting episodes of trailblazers!
Hear their stories here.
Stand Up Against Street Harassment
Conducted in English, Hindi & Marathi.
Feedback from some of the students in the session conducted in English.
What’s happening this month?
Roundtable with Women from STEAM
RDF in collaboration with Idobro and RISE World Summit 2023 organized a virtual round table conversation with Women in STEAM on 3rd February, 2023. The objective of the talk was to promote STEAM in India through our 3C Round table flow – Challenges, Capabilities and Collaboration.
Kala Ghoda Arts Festival
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SafeCircle
SafeCircle is a safe listening circle for survivors of violence and trauma to find support. The space is facilitated by our CEO Supreet K Singh and through these listening circles, survivors have found a community of support and solidarity where they share strategies and learn from each other’s experiences. Since May 2020 we have been providing psychosocial support to over 25 survivors.
Read on to learn more about SafeCircle here.
If you would like to attend a SafeCircle please visit here.
We cordially invite you to join these sessions. Once you register, our team will reach out to you with details such as the time and date of the SafeCircle.
Changemaker of the Month – Deeksha Verma
“I really enjoyed working with Red Dot Foundation. I learnt many things. I did not just develop confidence but also a really different mindset and broad view to look at people and stimuli to different situations. I feel safety is one of the very basic elements of a healthy and happy society which needs many improvements.”
Key points to understand through data – January
Reports collected from India in the month of January 2023
Click here to see the Safecity Data Dashboards.
Safecity Reporting Platform
Safecity is a platform as a service product that powers communities, police and city government to prevent violence in public and private spaces. Our technology stack collects and analyses crowdsourced, anonymous reports of violent crime, identifying patterns and key insights. This data enables citizens, researchers and policymakers to create safer spaces by:
- Increasing awareness, transparency and public accountability
- Improving policy and tactical precision with data-led insights
- Optimising budgets to more effectively allocate resources
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Upcoming Events
- Roundtable with Women in STEAM
- Kala Ghoda Arts Festival
– “Bioscope Stories Vs Bollywood” with the U.S Consulate General, Mumbai on 5th February 2023
– #GlobalGuyTalk with the Consulate General of Sweden in Mumbai on 7th February 2023 - RISE SUMMIT 2023 with STEAM women and ESG Fellows pitch
- Rainbow Circles Mumbai College meet with US Consulate and Session on Art for Change with Rainbow Ambassadors
- Safecity Twitter Chats & Spaces
Ongoing Projects
- Rainbow Circles
- Mentoring on Personal Leadership with Young Girls and Women with Adventures of the Mind
- Stand Up Against Street Harassment with L’Oreal Paris India and Right To Be
- Responsible Tourism Programme with SIDBI
- Responsible Community-Based Tourism Women Entrepreneurs (GAME)
- Ramboll STEM mentoring
- Youth League for Safer Cities
- Alumni Circles
- Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) Fellowship
- Vital Voices Training
- Virtual You, Real Me Training – Red Dot Foundation Global