SafeRide

A private safety app for women on Kenya's public transport

SafeRide is developed by Esheria For Good, the public-interest and social-impact initiative at esheria.org.

For survivors

Start a private report before the signal returns.

The mobile app creates a private draft first, then helps a rider review evidence, location, support, and consent choices without forcing an upload.

How it works

For communities

Four pathways: keep private, map anonymously, seek referral, or escalate.

SafeRide separates personal evidence from anonymous route signals so a rider can help reveal safety patterns without exposing names, audio, or exact journeys.

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Source transparency

Safety technology reviewers can inspect.

The Apache-2.0 public repository includes the current Android app, website, owned API, privacy controls, on-device AI integration, tests, and reproducible release evidence.

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Safer rides for every woman.

An open-source safety app for women using Nairobi's public transport.

Impact

Safety before scale.

These are product guardrails, not vanity metrics: SafeRide should first prove that a rider can keep control of what is captured, redacted, shared, and deleted.

forced uploads before a rider chooses a pathway

survivor-controlled pathways: private, map, referral, escalation

redaction modes before an escalation packet is shared

Be a force for safer transport.

SafeRide route safety team inspecting a matatu before a pilot

PILOT READINESS

The pilot flow covers the journey from a private draft to a consent decision

Riders can move through evidence, incident details, support choices, consent review, and case tracking without treating every draft as a formal report.

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SafeRide Android home dashboard with emergency, report, case tracker, support, and learning actions

PRIVACY-FIRST AI

The Android testing preview runs the tuned assistant locally on the phone

The v0.5.8 preview downloads and verifies the LiteRT-LM model for local text guidance. It remains a controlled testing build, with transcription, tagging, production use, and lower-memory device support still gated.

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SafeRide practical guidance and legal aid illustration

ACCOUNTABILITY DATA

Kenyan support information is available before a rider chooses a service

The app includes practical information about medical care, P3 forms, the 1195 helpline, GBV centres, legal aid, and evidence safety, with review still required before a live pilot.

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