ABOUT US

ABOUT Her World Africa


We are here to end violence in all it's forms.

Her World Africa is based on the belief that if more people take action when violence or harassment on women happens in their presence, we can end this problem together. We support individuals and institutions to stand up to violence on women before or when they see it happen. By taking a collective stand against violence and harassment on women, re-establishing social consequences for harassers – and making role models of people who stand up to them – we believe that harassers can be deterred from harassing women again.


Mission
Our mission is to end violence and harassment in all its forms by changing the society values that immortalize gender based hate and harassment.

Vission

Our vission is to model a society that guarantees the safety of all people from sexual and gender based violence.
As an organisation we believe we all have the right to be who we are, wherever we are.


WHAT WE DO
We operate as a perpetual affront to harassment — in all its forms. We are working to end gender-based harassment in public spaces, also known as street harassment. We aim to work on harassment across all spaces — including online, the workplace, transportation, protests, the polling booth, and all identities — including women, people of different races, religious minorities, people with disabilities, immigrants, and all others who are treated as “less than” just for being who they are. We seek to uproot hate and harassment whether is perpetuated by individuals, institutions, and the messy areas in between in issues like voter suppression and police brutality.

Our goal is to change the culture that makes harassment OK. We do that work by moving people into action:

    • We collect stories of harassment on our website (Click here to share) and on as well as through our free app (Click here to download), from all around Africa. Research shows that when people tell their story on our site it helps them move from understanding harassment as a personal problem requiring personal solutions (take a different route, get a cab, etc) to a societial problem requiring societial solutions (activism, policy change). Share your story supports healing and increases your liklihood of taking action.
    • We train people to respond to, intervene in, and heal from harassment. We recongize that the systems and structures that create and reinforce harassment across our society are fundamentally made of people. We want aim to equip everyday people with the tools to undo harassment in their everyday lives and to create impact in the organizations, insititutions, and businesses around them. We teach people how to fight for their own communities experience of harassment, but also teach how to reach across communities and fight alongside others who may experience harassment differently.

Together we can end harassment and violence on women.