We Encourage

How did I end up building We Encourage?
I could say that this mission chose me. A few years ago, I was watching a documentary about an Afghan girl, Sonita Alizadeh, who wanted to become a rapper. Long story short, she was almost forced into marriage but the documentary maker ended up buying her free. Something shifted in me, I got a strong determination and vision about helping other girls to get educated instead of being forced into marriage. Few years I let that vision grow in me, until November 2018 I took action to make this vision a reality. Since then the mission has evolved and shifted toward more concrete with the AI chatbot.

We Encourage Oy Ltd builds an AI 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.