We believe that increased reporting in crime is a key way to reduce crime too!
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.
Wear CAPS of Responsibility
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.
Alarms + Drivers and Conductors
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.
Spaces become safe for women when more women are on it!
Voice Out is a collective created to enable netizens to be active bystanders and intervene when they see someone in distress in virtual spaces. Today, we have our Voice out collective spread across India.
We are working with street vendors across the city to create safe public spaces for women to occupy. We work with both men and women in this endeavour.
Safe spaces are co created, and will enable more women to occupy public spaces for a livelihood, as well as instill confidence in other women to step out of their homes for work.