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Documenting Gender-Based Violence in Crisis Zones
Women living in domestic violence environments in Afghanistan no longer have help lines to call or shelters to escape to; they are literally living at the mercy of their abusers and have no recourse for safety. Furthermore, aid workers have no way to document abuse or reach victims for incident reporting, surveys or support.
My company SINGE is partnering with a crisis-alert mobile app for Afghanistan called Ehtesab, to integrate HALO, our API solution developed for women’s safety in mobility.
Here’s the story of what we’re doing, and how we decided to work together.
In 2021, in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdowns here in Berlin, I took an Uber to an appointment on a rainy day, and ended up with a brand new product by the end of the ride: a digital answer to what we call the Safety App Gap.
After the media attention surrounding women’s safety in recent years, companies such as Lyft and Uber have added an SOS button to their apps. A number of tracking apps have been brought to market as well. While the integratons and apps are commendable, they are solutions that leave a gap.
