Hamro Safety

Description of Hamro Safety

Hamro Safety is a digital platform developed especially for marginalized women in Nepal to provide essential information related to their sexual and reproductive health rights. Marginalized women often have limited access to sexual and reproductive health services because the large society views them from a different lens. The stigma and discrimination they have to encounter because of their socio-economic status including, origin, caste, gender, occupation, education act as a barrier for them to access necessary sexual and reproductive health services. As they are looked down upon by the society they are more often than not hesitant to visit hospitals and health centers to discuss their health problems and receive essential health services. As they are highly stigmatized marginalized women particularly, women living with HIV, female sex workers, female drug users and LGBTIQ live in silos because of which they lack awareness of their sexual and reproductive health rights. They fail to realize that it falls under their fundamental human rights to have equal access to resources and lead a dignified, healthy life. This means they often neglect their crucial health conditions putting their own lives in jeopardy. Hamro Safety app is designed to make crucial information regarding sexual and reproductive health rights more accessible to these women so that they are empowered to exercise their rights and receive stigma free, quality health services.
Currently the mobile app provides information on safe abortion including mapping of the safe abortion service sites in five districts of Nepal. It puts necessary information regarding safe abortion in their hands so that they are able to make their own decisions about their body and life in the right time. In the future, the app intends to integrate other core components of the sexual and reproductive health rights to cater to the needs of these women.
The main features of the app consists of:
1. Period Tracker
2. Panic Safety Siren
3. Medicine reminder
4. Services map
5. News
6. Anonymous Forum
7. SRH Facts