WESS NGO Paid Tribute to Nirbhaya

WESS (Women Empowerment Safety, Security) Foundation – an association formed by 14 independent ladies, an NGO under the Haryana Society Act under the leadership of Veena Gupta, Indu Saini and Bharti Patwar, organized an event recently on 17 December 2022 to pay tribute to Nirbhaya at Artemis hospital, Gurugram. Women from all walks of life came together under one roof for candle lighting. The event witnessed eminent personalities were present from different walks of life and experience to explore and discuss solutions in the form of mindset change, corporal help, legal help, police support and available technology. Shakti Wearables was the technical partner, and SecurityLinkIndia was the media partner to the event.

The vision of WESS NGO is to create a safer society for all men and women pan India. WESS NGO Founder

Veena Gupta said, “I feel every girl should learn self defence and it’s time that women should have their safety in their own hand with which she supports India’s first anti rape device – Shakti .”

The special attraction of the event included an acid attack play by Ravij Kohli representing acid attack victims. The Chief Guest of the event was SHO from Civil Lines Police, Gurugram – Ms Poonam Hooda, and one of the youngest philanthropist Jas Kalra from Earth Saviours Foundation keeping women safety as the central theme.

The event also paid special attention to women’s health like breast cancer by Dr Priya Tiwari and Dr Renu Sehgal.

A knowledgeable themed panel discussion – SheTalks – Main Bhi Shakti included corporate security leaders such as Maj. Vashita – Vice President of Security, Marsh McLennan; Ms Geetika Wahi – Security Director at Netrika Consulting; Navdeep Singh – Founder, Incredible Story; Shruti Mittal from Gurgaon circle of MOM; Mohit Sharma from Gurgaon Civil Defence.

Special group of women executive club of India headed by Simran Chugh and Harish Gupta also showed their support towards women empowerment. Solution oriented women safety technical session was conducted by Veena Gupta and Srishti Sharma .

The technical session included some self defence techniques and India’s first anti rape device – Shakti Wearables – that electrifies an attacker on a button press and sends a user’s last live location to their top 3 contacts. Srishti Sharma is the founder of Shakti Wearables and is a serial entrepreneur, social activist and 5 timed TEDx speaker.

Veena Gupta is the founder of seam global consulting Singapore and google icon for #searchforchange.

Wess NGO and their team have expressed their emotions towards asking support from all corporate , government and departments to help them in their vision to distribute this device – Shakti free of cost to every Indian household, nukkad, gali, village and to the underprivileged section of society.