Durga understands that walking into a police station can be hard, and is a barrier that many find hard to overcome.
Box It facilitates a system that protects women, by placing complaint boxes in public spaces accessible to women. Durga tied up with the Bangalore Bus Transport system and put up the Box-It boxes in prominent bus terminals thereby bringing the complaint mechanism closer to women who find themselves in a vulnerable situation in public spaces.
Anyone wishing to seek help through Durga can use these boxes to facilitate action based on genuine complaints.
Any citizen who feels responsible to understand and identify if a public space is accessible for women can be a CAPS volunteer.
So far, CAPS has been successfully done in 100 Parks, 50 Bus Stops, 50 Police Stations, several Popular Streets/Spaces.
Durga aims at making the city safe for women and children, by adopting all means possible and also by increasing access and opportunity to report crimes.
Our initiative, BeTogetherBangalore is created to work closely with Police, Government, and civil society thereby building mechanisms to increase the presence of women in public spaces everywhere and at all times. It aims at making and, or adopting plans and will be primarily engaged in making identified jurisdictions safe.
Pin drop is known for their well behaved and dedicated delivery agents who make sure that they deliver their assigned task on time. At Durga, we have collaborated with Pindrop to create safe spaces for everyone.
90% of women and girls feel unsafe or vulnerable in public transport. In order to make public spaces occupiable for women and buses being one, we piloted the first of its kind panic alarms (Durga Alarms) in Bangalore’s buses and also took them to Delhi.
The idea is to create a noise on sexual violence and get attention of bystanders to intervene and address the issue immediately.
We promote a self-sustaining democratic community to build safe spaces within the virtual spaces – VOICE out. It is a collective created to enable netizens to be active bystanders and intervene when they see someone in distress in virtual spaces.
VOICE out identifies virtual space as a public space and every netizen has a role to play in making it safe for the others. Today, we have our Voice out collective spread across India.
Spaces become safe for women when more women are on it!
To work with women street vendors from BBMP to create safe public spaces.
Call to Action for anyone interested in co-creating safe public spaces with us by enabling more women to occupy public spaces for a livelihood. This will give confidence for more women to step out and hence makes spaces far more safe.