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There is nothing more empowering than enacting the change that you wish to see; and along the way, battling the stereotypes and the social stigma that sexual harassment brings. This is what HarassMap continues to do, as Egypt's first independent initiative to directly address sexual harassment; seeking change in the Egyptian society at an ambitious level. To be on the street, processing and mapping text messages, emails, calls, and locally reported incidents is a challenge in itself. After 8 years of research, and 3 years of mapping reported incidents, HarassMap has proven they are capable and are ready to take the next step in their campaign’s journey.
In 2013, one UN Study found that 99.3% of Egyptian women admitted being sexually harassed. This is a massive problem! With HarassMap, these statistics are visualized and encourages men and women who are sexually harassed to speak up, to report it, to share their story with fellow citizens, and with the world. They continue to prove that the demographics and stereotypes that have been accepted are false and show no predictable trends of any kind. HarassMap needs to raise national awareness; in order to progress further, HarassMap now seeks to “change the perceptions associated with sexual harassment and create a positive association with standing up to harassment.”
HarassMap plans to produce a high quality national campaign, to help bring an end to the resigned and passive attitudes towards sexual harassment found in a majority of Egypt’s population. The full-scale and multifaceted plan to reach out across the nation involves everything from television commercials, radio and print ads, to guerrilla marketing, giveaways and street art. Of course, an effective, top quality media campaign needs to be produced, and worked on tirelessly.
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Even if you are not able help monetarily, there are so many other ways to help make this a reality for this ever expanding campaign; help by sharing their crowdfunding campaign on social media and by following them on their Facebook Twitter accounts, help by donating your time as a volunteer (send an email to volunteer@harassmap.org, help by directing people to Harassmap to report, and most importantly you can help by reporting sexual harassment if it happens to you, or if you witness it, by telling HarassMap what happened, and where.
HarassMap also empowers activists and their communities worldwide... as their crowdfunding page notes, “HarassMap has already launched in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India; projects in progress include Libya, Turkey, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, US, Canada, Iran, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Cambodia, Morocco and a group of countries in South America.”
Courtesy: HarassMap[/caption]
There is nothing more empowering than enacting the change that you wish to see; and along the way, battling the stereotypes and the social stigma that sexual harassment brings. This is what HarassMap continues to do, as Egypt's first independent initiative to directly address sexual harassment; seeking change in the Egyptian society at an ambitious level. To be on the street, processing and mapping text messages, emails, calls, and locally reported incidents is a challenge in itself. After 8 years of research, and 3 years of mapping reported incidents, HarassMap has proven they are capable and are ready to take the next step in their campaign’s journey.
In 2013, one UN Study found that 99.3% of Egyptian women admitted being sexually harassed. This is a massive problem! With HarassMap, these statistics are visualized and encourages men and women who are sexually harassed to speak up, to report it, to share their story with fellow citizens, and with the world. They continue to prove that the demographics and stereotypes that have been accepted are false and show no predictable trends of any kind. HarassMap needs to raise national awareness; in order to progress further, HarassMap now seeks to “change the perceptions associated with sexual harassment and create a positive association with standing up to harassment.”
HarassMap plans to produce a high quality national campaign, to help bring an end to the resigned and passive attitudes towards sexual harassment found in a majority of Egypt’s population. The full-scale and multifaceted plan to reach out across the nation involves everything from television commercials, radio and print ads, to guerrilla marketing, giveaways and street art. Of course, an effective, top quality media campaign needs to be produced, and worked on tirelessly.
Support Harassmap's Crowdfund
HarassMap has started a crowdfunding page for these aspiring and high-reaching goals, in which they detail past history, awards, and an in-depth plan on how they will move forward, and bring awareness of sexual harassment into" hopefully every [Egyptian] household" with their bold new media campaign plan.[caption id="attachment_12633" align="alignleft" width="302"]
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Even if you are not able help monetarily, there are so many other ways to help make this a reality for this ever expanding campaign; help by sharing their crowdfunding campaign on social media and by following them on their Facebook Twitter accounts, help by donating your time as a volunteer (send an email to volunteer@harassmap.org, help by directing people to Harassmap to report, and most importantly you can help by reporting sexual harassment if it happens to you, or if you witness it, by telling HarassMap what happened, and where.
HarassMap also empowers activists and their communities worldwide... as their crowdfunding page notes, “HarassMap has already launched in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India; projects in progress include Libya, Turkey, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, US, Canada, Iran, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Cambodia, Morocco and a group of countries in South America.”