✨The fundraising platform for women empowerment✨
We believe that every girl has the right to education, equality, and empowerment. Every woman has the right to live free from violence and oppression. Our mission is to enable that.
Our service is a web-based fundraising platform for SME NGOs and individual fundraisers for causes aimed to empower and support women and girls. Our services include support and help with ideating and creating the fundraising cause and need. We also help with marketing planning and executing for the fundraising as well as for the follow-up. We ensure transparency and traceability of the donations, enabled by the blockchain technology provided by our strategic partner Charity Wall.
Many of the SME charities suffer from the lack of marketing know-how, resources for fundraising, etc. Similarly, the individual fundraisers might not be skilled enough for planning and executing a fundraising cause. Also, donors have lost their trust in most of the charities and studies show transparency is highly valued.
As the information is more and more available, people have noticed that not all charities are directing money where it should be directed. That robs away the good feeling, and many times donors are left feeling frustrated and powerless. No matter how much they give, they are still left with a feeling of disempowerment, and huge pressure of not being able to do anything for the people they are wanting to help. Time to time this leads to the fact that people simply stop giving.
SO, We do not only serve the fundraiser but also take into account the needs and preferences of the donors. We select carefully the NGOs and causes we work with, we require a budget for the target cause, and we also require follow-up reporting on how and where the money is being spent.
✨Conversational AI tool for victims of domestic violence✨
To support our mission towards equality, We Encourage builds a conversational Artificial Intelligence tool for providing psycho-social support and guidance to women victims of intimate partner violence, gender-based violence, and promoting sexual and reproductive health.
Violence against women – particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence – is a major public health problem and a violation of women’s human rights. Global estimates published by WHO indicate that about 1 in 3 (35%) of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.
The AI tool is expected to act as a reliable source of information for women on their rights and where to seek different levels of support. The tool will be providing step by step recommendations to victims and act as a helping friend. This intervention is expected to address a chronic development issue and to have a cross-cutting impact on SDG 3 (ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages) and SDG 5 ( Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls). Furthermore, the AI tool could also help in building a network for anonymous peer to peer support networks among users who are experiencing similar incidents.
The tool is an open-source project and it is community build in collaboration with IPV experience experts, professionals, and collaborating NGOs Nicehearts ry, Naisten Linja, and Kynnys ry. The company has signed a Letter of Intent for the partnership for collaboration with the United Nations Technology and Innovation Lab (UNTIL).