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About Us

Our mission is to create and maintain a sustainable virtual safe space where women are able to seek out help from their community, in a secure and supportive environment.

We aim to enhance the ecosystem of existing solutions rather than replace them to expand their beneficiaries & meet the needs of more women and girls worldwide.

Safe YOU aims to be a key resource for evidence based policy making through our sophisticated AI data analysis system. This will lead to the prediction & prevention of Violence Against Women & Girls.

Safe YOU’s innovative technical solution is designed to accelerate progress of SDG number 5, Gender Equality.

We dream of a day where Safe YOU will no longer be a necessary application for women but until that day we will continue to work to help protect, educate and empower women all around the world.

TIMELINE

2019

Safe YOU prototype was founded and conceptualized by Mariam Torosyan as a result of a research program supported by the World Bank and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI), implemented by the Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF)

2020

April

Working with both IT professionals and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) experts, Impact Innovations Institute (IMIN) was established, a social enterprise with the purpose of tackling social issues through innovation.

2020

May

The first version of the Safe YOU application and platform was launched in Armenia, IMIN’s first product.

2020

June

Safe YOU was launched in Georgia in partnership with Union Sapari.

2021

June

With the help of UNICEF Innovation, Safe YOU was recognised as a Digital Public Good (DPG), a digital tool aimed at achieving sustainable development goal number 5 (Gender Equality) as set by the United Nations Secretary General’s 2020 Roadmap for Digital Cooperation.

2021

July

Impact Innovations Institute’s Initiatives Foundation (IMIN) was created, a women-led non-profit organization created by Impact Innovations Institute.

2021

December

Safe YOU was launched in Northern Iraq (Kurdistan) in partnership with UNFPA Iraq and UNFPA Armenia.

2021

December

Safe YOU was launched in Northern Iraq (Kurdistan) in partnership with UNFPA Iraq and UNFPA Armenia.

Vision History Team

OUR TEAM

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Mariam Torosyan

CEO and Founder

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Lilit Shakhulyan

COO

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Natalie Marcarian

Global Head of Partnerships

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Alik Vardanyan

CTO

Vision History Team