About Us
Women safety being a global concern, SAFE has been designed and developed to empower women to deal with all kinds of unsafe situations at all times. It also engages young boys and men to play an active role in this.
Board Of Trustees
Dr Renu Suri
Permanent Trustee and Chairperson
A seasoned trainer, leader and an implementer of visions, Dr. Renu Suri is a Ph.D. in Anthropology and represents a good blend of an educationist and a development practitioner with over 35 years experience. She has worked for reputed international and national organizations across pan India for various social development programs at state and national levels, and held senior positions that of Director, Gender Training Institute at Centre for Social Research, New Delhi; Director CARE India for Rajasthan State; Program Manager, National Skill Qualification Framework - a GoI program for the State of Haryana; Director, FICCI-CARE, Gujarat, etc. She has also been a Consultant and a community/gender expert for International organizations such as GTZ, Embassy of Netherlands, UNICEF and NORAD.
Dr. Suri is the Founder Chairperson of Sahayak Foundation and Co-Founder of Safe-Sahayak programs.
Ms Sabina Suri
Trustee
A graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US with 15 years of diverse global experience in urban place making, participatory planning and stakeholder facilitation, Ms. Sabina Suri is deeply interested in the creation of liveable cities and sustainable, safe communities. Her professional experience in India as well as the United States has allowed her to work collaboratively with diverse clients integrating humanization aspects in communities and creating vibrant urban environments. Sabina is passionate about social issues, has lectured & presented papers at various forums and conferences in countries such as US, Korea, Vietnam, India, Slovenia etc. Sabina is also a visiting faculty and external examiner at Universities in India and currently a Corporate Trainer for Safe-Sahayak programs.
Dr S N Suri
Permanent Trustee
Dr. Suri is an experienced Academic Administrator with unique blend of over 45 years of Teaching, Research, Training, Open Learning and University Governance & Administration. He held senior positions at all levels of higher education that of Professor & Head, Department of Zoology, Govt. Science College, Kohima; Principal, Jawaharlal, Nehru (PG) College, Arunachal Pradesh; Manager Operations, Informatics Computer Systems, Delhi; Regional Director, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Delhi; Registrar,Indian Institute of Public Administration, Delhi; Registrar,Amity University, Noida; Vice President (Institutional Affairs), University Of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun; and Founder Pro-Vice Chancellor,University of Technology & Management, Shillong.
Presently, he is a Consultant for Private Universities and his core strengths are: University system; Institutional Governance, Performance Audit; Regulatory Compliances; and Establishing and managing Private Universities, etc.
Dr. Suri is associated with a number of professional bodies and is widely travelled within India and abroad.
Dr Urshila Chanana
Trustee
Dr Urshilla did her Masters in English literature and later PhD in psychodynamics of human relationship from Delhi University. She loved teaching and was very popular with her students because of her intense and passionate engagement with English Literature the way she felt and communicated. Her life long relationship with English literature went hand in hand with another cherished interest - Urdu poetry.
Urshila as an idealistic deeply introspective and thoughtful person urbane and widely travelled is yet socially rooted. contemporary issues with multiple perceptions and variation of facets are analysed by her in talks and are also brought out in the pages of her book'Nazariyae' published in 2011.
Ms Monica Raghuvanshi
Trustee
Ms Raghuvanshi is a graduate and postgraduate in English from Punjab University. She has been deeply involved in social and charitable causes.
Col B S Beri
Permanent Trustee
A security and defense expert, Col. Beri served the Indian army and held senior appointments in Indian Army, including commanding an infantry regiment. He is a security expert and philanthropist.