Safe YOU mobile application was created in Armenia by a group of women who decided to use their professional knowledge in order to save people from violence.
Having downloaded the application they created to the mobile, in case of danger, you only need to click on one icon. In a matter of seconds, the data of a person in danger will be transferred to the police and to the people they trust and can turn to for help.
The details of how the application was created, how it works – from the words of the author who came up with this idea.
“Even unborn girls need protection”
“Two years ago I started working on a program implemented by the World Bank. And the Enterprise Incubator Foundation, as part of this project, conducted research on innovative solutions that could help people experiencing violence.
Then the idea of creating something arose, but the Safe YOU mobile application materialized thanks to a coincidence that, in fact, changed my whole life.
I was pregnant, waiting for the birth of my daughter, when one of my relatives told me: “You have become so much prettier, you will definitely have a son”. When I said that we were expecting a girl, she looked at me with sadness and sympathy and said: “Don’t worry, you will give birth to a son next time”.
At that moment, the world around me seemed to collapse. I began to wonder why one woman could tell another that being a woman is worse than being a man. This became my intrinsic motivation. I realized that even unborn girls need protection in this world, and I don’t want my daughter to live in such a society”, says Mariam Torosyan, founder and CEO of Impact Innovations Institute, a social enterprise that created the SAFE mobile application YOU.
Mariam Torosyan
As a first-class lawyer, Mariam also worked in the field of social anthropology and public health issues. She decided that her idea should include all these principles and should serve to save lives.
In 2020, when the idea was already fully developed, the team created an application in a short time. It coincided with a difficult period for Armenia – the 44-day Karabakh war began. Due to financial problems that arose during this period, it was not possible to launch the application in Armenia. At first it was launched in Georgia with the assistance of one of the local public organizations for the protection of women’s rights, Union Sapari, and in Georgia, more …….