Privacy first
Start privately, review consent, and understand what stays on the phone before anything is shared.
Guides
Guides for safer, more private reporting.
Public-facing notes for riders, supporters, reviewers, and pilot partners who need SafeRide to feel private, practical, legal, and safe.
Legal clarity
Plain-language notes can help riders understand options without turning the app into legal advice.
Route safety
Anonymous patterns can support safer transport only when private evidence and exact journeys stay protected.
Coverage
Press
External coverage of SafeRide, Esheria, and the UNICEF Femtech Ventures cohort.
UNICEF Femtech Ventures backs 11 startups tackling women's health gaps across Africa, Asia
BusinessDay's cohort coverage names SafeRide by Esheria in Kenya among the inaugural UNICEF Femtech Ventures startups using frontier technology for women's health and safety.
Read BusinessDay articleField note
Presenting SafeRide as a privacy-first transport safety workflow.
At the UNICEF Venture Fund meet, SafeRide was presented less as a campaign and more as a product question: how can a rider document harassment, understand support options, and still control what leaves their phone?
The conversation centred on the practical pieces that matter before scale: local drafts, consent review, redacted route signals, referral boundaries, and a route accountability model that does not turn survivor experience into public exposure.
Featured guide
Start with the reader's next decision.
Practical notes for riders, reviewers, and partners are grouped like articles, not campaign panels.
How SafeRide keeps a report private until you choose a path
A rider can begin with a local draft, review what is recorded, and decide whether anything leaves the phone.
Part 01
Start privately
SafeRide is designed around a draft-first flow: write down what happened, add only the evidence that feels safe, and pause before choosing a referral, anonymous map update, or escalation path.
Part 02
Choose what leaves
Before sharing, the app should show the user what will be sent, what stays private, and what redaction level applies, so consent is a real decision rather than a hidden upload.
Latest guides
Understand the choices before a crisis.
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Know your options - 2026-05-24
Medical, legal, and support steps riders can understand before they report
SafeRide explains support choices in plain language while keeping clear boundaries: it is not a clinic, lawyer, police desk, or counselling service.
- Care first
- Survivor-facing guidance should make urgent care, PEP timelines, emergency contraception, psychosocial support, and evidence safety easier to understand without pressuring anyone into a formal report.
- Support without pressure
- A referral brief should be optional, reviewable, and limited to the details needed for the chosen support path, with no suggestion that a survivor must report to be believed.
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Route safety - 2026-05-24
How anonymous route signals can improve transport safety without exposing survivors
Route accountability should use minimized, aggregated, consented signals, not private evidence or exact journeys.
- Private evidence stays private
- A personal draft, audio clip, statement, or support brief is different from an anonymous route pattern. SafeRide should keep those boundaries visible at every sharing step.
- Patterns need safeguards
- Public route insights need minimum sample thresholds, time windows, bias notes, and partner action loops before they can responsibly influence operations or policy.