The #MAW project consists in the design of a Camouflaged Help Device for Victims of Gender Violence. The main difference with regard to the devices used today, distance bracelet and Atenpro system, is that our device is designed so that any Victim of Gender Violence can use it.
The device will be camouflaged in accessories such as bracelets, pendants, watches ... .. but always taking into account the characteristics of the victim, since our intention is to have this device available to the victims who still live with their aggressor and have not yet taken the decision to file a complaint or those to which the restraining order has been terminated, which does not mean that they are no longer in danger.
If the victim activates the device, an alert signal will automatically be sent to the control center indicating the Victim's data and the location of the victim. This control center can be managed by a central office, such as the Cometa Center that manages the distance bracelets, or, for greater efficiency, it can be managed by any security body, national police, civil guard or local police. This would allow each police station to directly manage the attention of the Victims assigned to them. This also favors its rapid insertion, since it can be a security system implemented by the State or it can be implemented directly by any municipality, without having to wait for the State to impose its use.
At the same time that the device sends the alert and location to the security bodies or control center, the device will begin to make an audio recording of what happens as it does the Atenpro device, which can be used as evidence before a subsequent complaint.
If you realize, our device is a combination of the distance bracelets and the Atenpro system but with the peculiarity that it is a camouflaged device that makes it easy for any Victim to take it, and to this we have to add the big price difference, the bracelets of remoteness imposed by court order have a cost of about 6,000 euros and our device will be around 350 euros, which will make it much more accessible to public coffers.
We have also added the figure of the Anonymous Lifeguard which, through an app, people related to the victim, relatives, friends, neighbors .... They will act as lifeguards and direct care people. The victim, by means of the device, will be able to contact his lifeguard if he needs his help, and when he activates the alert, the lifeguard will receive this alert and through a protocol of action that is helping us to design the security bodies, will perform different actions in order to gain vital seconds until the security forces arrive.
With the #ProyectoALMA we propose four important points:
- Help:
Allow any Victim of Gender Violence to have the opportunity to request assistance.
- Attention and support:
Through the figure of the Anonymous Lifeguard the Victim will have someone to help him out of his situation.
- Awareness:
Involving society to participate with the figure of Anonymous Rescuer will serve as seed.
- Prevention:
By conducting a good publicity campaign, many abusers will think twice about violent actions.