Online Safety
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GHANA-US WOMEN'S SAFETY FOUNDATION
SafeHerFoundation
Pretty Girl, Save Yourself.
A Ghana-US women's safety foundation equipping girls and women across Africa with practical physical, digital, and financial safety education.
Live Impact
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Women & girls reached
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Certificates issued
6
Free courses live
1
Countries active
Personal safety✦Home safety✦Online safety✦Financial safety✦Certification✦Community✦
Personal safety✦Home safety✦Online safety✦Financial safety✦Certification✦Community✦
Our Mission
Equip every
woman.
Across Sub-Saharan Africa, more than 110 million young women navigate a world where physical, digital, and financial threats blur into one another. Existing safety education was not built for them — it was translated for them. That is not enough.
SafeHer Foundation is what happens when a published curriculum forged over two decades meets ground presence, cultural fluency, and cybersecurity expertise. We do not adapt. We co-author. We do not lecture. We certify, equip, and step back so local educators can lead.
30+
Core safety principles
4
Pillars of protection
20+
Years of expertise
∞
Lives we intend to reach
Leadership
Co-founded by
Zarinah Knows & DK Cyber
Co-Founder
Zarinah Knows
Author, women's safety educator, and security/privacy professional with over twenty years of senior leadership in national security, privacy, law, and international trade.
A proud HBCU, law, and Harvard Kennedy School graduate. Author of 30 Ways Pretty Girls Can Save Themselves. The founding voice for personal safety education.
Washington, D.C. · Curriculum & US Operations
Co-Founder
DK Cyber
Ghanaian cybersecurity professional and digital safety trainer with deep expertise in account security, mobile fraud, social engineering, and digital safety architecture for African contexts.
Africa operations and technology lead. Brings the ground presence, cultural fluency, and continental network that transforms imported curriculum into authentic local movement.
Accra, Ghana · Technology & Africa Operations
What we teach
Four pillars.
One promise.
Every SafeHers program rests on the same belief: safety is learnable, teachable, and shareable. These are the four pillars that hold the work together.
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Personal Safety
Awareness, instinct, and protocol. The foundation every woman deserves to know before she steps outside.
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Home Safety
Doors, locks, neighbors, routines. Practical protection for the place you should feel safest.
Explore03
Online Safety
Mobile money fraud, sextortion, romance scams, account security. Built for African digital life.
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Financial Safety & Wealth
Budgeting, banking, investing, and entrepreneurship. Because financial independence is a safety strategy.
ExploreTrusted by institutions across Africa
UG
KNUST
UNILAG
UoN
GES
AUC
UNW
MCF
TEF
AMREF
UG
KNUST
UNILAG
UoN
GES
AUC
UNW
MCF
TEF
AMREF
SafeHer Academy
Learn to protect yourself.
Free. Online. Certified.
Practical safety courses designed for women and girls across Africa. Built by security professionals, delivered online, and every course earns you a verifiable SafeHer Foundation certificate.
Personal Safety
Situational awareness, safety circles, and daily protocols
Online Safety
Phone privacy, spy app detection, and sextortion response
Financial Safety
Mobile money fraud protection and financial security
Campus Safety
Hostel security, campus resources, and emergency plans
Accountability & Trust
Built for
transparency.
Financial Transparency
Annual reports and audited financials published for full donor confidence.
Learn moreMonitoring & Evaluation
Every program measured against clear outcomes, with results published openly.
Learn moreFrom the Journal
Knowledge is
power.
Online Safety
What To Do If Someone Is Blackmailing You Online
Sextortion and online blackmail are rising across Africa. Here is a calm, step-by-step response protocol — what to do in the first 24 hours and who to contact.
Read morePersonal Safety
How to Build a Safety Circle You Can Trust
A safety circle is your first line of defence. Learn how to choose the right people, set up check-in protocols, and test your emergency communication system.
Read moreWhat people say
Real voices,
real change.
Voices from the community
“SafeHers did not just teach us what to do — it taught us why. That deeper understanding is what changes behaviour for life.”
A
Adwoa Mensah
Student ✦ University of Ghana, Legon
Impact Stories
Measurable
outcomes.
Ghana
1,200+
participants
A public university in Accra (name withheld by agreement)
40% increase in safety incident reporting; curriculum now embedded in annual orientation
Read case studyGhana, Nigeria
340+
participants
A West African hotel group (name withheld)
92% of participants rated training as 'highly relevant'; two documented successful incident responses within 90 days
Read case studyGhana, Kenya, South Africa
180+
participants
A pan-African financial services company (name withheld)
94% felt safer commuting to/from work after training; training cited in employee engagement survey as a key wellbeing differentiator
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Voice of the co-founder
I have been teaching this material to teen girls and women since 2015. We are no longer holding back. We are building.
Zarinah Knows
Co-Founder · Author · Harvard Kennedy School
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Ready to begin
Bring SafeHers
to your community.
Universities, governments, NGOs, corporations — if you serve women and girls, we have a program built for you. Whether as a partner, donor, or institutional sponsor, the conversation begins here.