More than 1.14 billion people around the world — 18% of the world’s population — are currently suffering from sexual violence in silence
Sexual violence, according to the World Health Organization, is a “global health problem of epidemic proportion.” It impacts people of every ethnicity, gender, age, religion, and political orientation. There is hardly a single person on this planet who doesn’t know someone who has been through sexual violence…maybe you yourself have been through sexual violence…?
While being sexually violated is one of the worst things that can happen to a person, suffering alone without help makes recovery and returning to normal life nearly impossible. With 87% of survivors staying silent, sexual violence destroys the lives of its victims as well as wreaking havoc upon our communities — in essence, we all suffer the fallout of sexual violence.
The MapYourVoice solution
MapYourVoice is a powerful yet user-friendly social web mapping platform strategically designed to reach survivors in every corner of the globe and bridge the gap between sexual traumatization and recovery. The platform is designed to help over 1 billion sexual trauma survivors by giving them a safe place to:
MapYourVoice’s primary mission is bridging the gap between trauma and recovery by addressing the 3 main needs of a sexual violence survivor:
BIG DATA to end sexual violence
A key objective of MapYourVoice is to provide the data to resolve the global epidemic of sexual violence. Because survivors are silent, the data is missing to resolve this huge problem — we lack local, regional, national, and global data…it just isn’t there. The aggregate data collected through the anonymous survivor intake questionnaires, will be used to serve public health, law enforcement, policy makers, academia, survivor advocates, and more — all in efforts to end sexual violence.
Help us make MapYourVoice a reality
With this crowdfunding campaign, we are hoping to raise the $35K needed to build a Beta version of MapYourVoice. This Beta, which includes both basic desktop and mobile version, will allows us to:
Join the MapYourVoice global movement to end sexual violence!
We need your help to make the global solution that MapYourVoice offers a reality… MapYourVoice has a solid potential to make global sea change around the issue of sexual violence. Harnessing the viral potential of social media, MapYourVoice will ignite a “chain reaction effect” of survivors mapping their voices. Each survivor’s voice will make the MapYourVoice Voice Counter rise — along with a global sense of urgency to address the issue of sexual violence. If everyone who cares about this issue gives what they can…even if it is a small amount …and spreads the word, encouraging others to do the same …MapYourVoice will have the very real potential of changing the world. Please generously give what you can to make MapYourVoice available to sexual violence survivors now. Participation is the key.
Let’s rise up and do this together! 1.14 Billion people need you to raise your voice to help them reclaim theirs.
Our sincere thanks,
Jeni Ambrose
MapYourVoice Executive Director
For more information, visit www.mapyourvoice.org