Sakhi for South Asian Survivors

From Monday, December 23, 2024, through Wednesday, January 1, 2025, Sakhi for South Asian Survivors will pause operations for the holidays. During this time, our offices and helpline will be closed. We will resume regular operations on Thursday, January 2, 2025. If you are in urgent need of support while we are closed, please reach out to the following resources: National Domestic Violence Hotline: Call 1-800-621-HOPE Rape & Sexual Assault Hotline: Call 1-212-227-3000 LGBTQIA+ Hotline: Text START to 678-678 or Call 1-866-488-7386 Mental Health Support: Text WELL to 65173 or Call 1-888-NYC-WELL Thank you for your understanding and ongoing support. We wish you a joyful holiday season and a Happy New Year filled with warmth and peace! 🎉✨

Your support makes Sakhi’s work possible. Every donation helps us create a future where survivors can recover, grow, and thrive. For 35 years, your generosity has enabled us to pave the way for safety and empowerment in South Asian and Indo-Caribbean communities. With your help, we can expand this impact and ensure survivors have the necessary resources to rebuild their lives. 💜 Donate today to help define the future of survivor justice: https://ow.ly/2N7Q50UuouM Stand with Sakhi as we move boldly into the next chapter of this movement. #Sakhi35Years #SupportSurvivors #DefiningTheMovement

Through a survivor-centered approach, Sakhi creates spaces where healing is rooted in safety, inclusion, and care. 💜 Messages from our “I Stand With Sakhi” cards, written by community members and survivors, highlight the strength and courage guiding our daily work. Healing is a powerful process—restoring dignity, building independence, and reclaiming emotional safety. These experiences inspire us to reimagine a gender justice movement grounded in survivor leadership. Support the vision for a more just and compassionate future by standing with survivors today. #Sakhi35Years #SupportSurvivors #CommunityHealing

🌟 For 35 years, Sakhi has stood as a foundation for safety, healing, and liberation in South Asian and Indo-Caribbean communities. 🌟 Since 1989, we’ve worked tirelessly to ensure survivors can access support and resources, prioritizing their voices and needs. As we mark this milestone, we celebrate the resilience of survivors and the transformative power of community care. Help us build on this legacy of hope and healing as we continue to create pathways to liberation. 💜 #Sakhi35Years #DefiningTheMovement #SurvivorJustice

✨ *A Day of Connection, Joy, and Magic!* ✨ Recently, Sakhi’s Community Engagement Program team hosted Navigate Your City, bringing survivors together for a meaningful day of community and celebration. We started with a delicious brunch at Mokafe in Times Square. From there, we stepped into the dazzling world of Broadway to experience Aladdin. The vibrant sets, music, and storytelling offered a moment to dream and embrace joy together. 🌟 These moments of connection and exploration are vital to healing, providing space to uplift the spirit, build community, and reclaim joy. Thank you to everyone who joined us in making this day special—we look forward to more opportunities to come together and celebrate resilience. 💜 #HealingThroughJoy #NavigateYourCity #CommunityCare #BroadwayMagic

Our 2024 Impact Report is here! This year marks an incredible milestone as Sakhi celebrates 35 years of Defining the Movement and working with South Asian and Indo-Caribbean survivors. In 2024, we worked with over 600 survivors—the most in our history—through holistic programs that foster safety, healing, and liberation. ✨ Counseling: 100% of participants achieved meaningful, self-identified goals within six months. ✨ Anti-Violence: 95% of participants gained safety from harm within six months. ✨ Housing: 90% secured stable housing and reported feeling empowered. ✨ Youth Empowerment: Participation surged by 94%, underscoring our commitment to supporting survivors as young as six. These milestones reflect the resilience of survivors and the transformative power of Sakhi’s work. Together, with the trust of survivors, our team's dedication, and our community's support, we are building a future defined by safety, healing, and liberation. Read the full report and join us in continuing to Define the Movement: https://bit.ly/3ZFjaPJ #DefiningTheMovement #35YearsOfSakhi #SurvivorJustice —— Beesham A. Seecharan Sabrin Chowdhury Radhika Nayar Bushra Mannan Nilufer Shaikh Nalini Tiwari Greenan Diksha Mishra Rupal Patel, MBA Vasanta Pundarika Leela Ramnath Sumeet Salwan Dina Siddiqi Sejal Shah

⚠️ Content Note: This series has mentions of violence, suicide, and death, which may be triggering. Please take care of yourself as you engage with these posts. As the year ends, we honor, grieve, and remember the 19 precious lives we have lost to gender-based, intimate-partner, and family violence in the South Asian American diaspora. 🤍 This year, we honor the lives of Rajdeep Kaur, Alice Benziger, Noah, Neithan, Chandra Maya Poudel-Rima, Syeda Aalia Nayya, Syeda Fatima, Alizey Fatima, Vipanpal Multani, Jasvir Kaur, Tika Dhimal, Mamta Kafle Bhatt, and Sowmya Balasubramanian. Their Light Remains stands as an affirmation of life, an urgent call for action, and a reminder that our grief and struggles for liberation are connected. We call for urgent investment and action to prevent violence, support survivors, and build pathways to safety, justice, and healing for South Asian communities. ✊🏽 In solidarity with more than 30 grassroots organizations in our collective, we call for urgent action: to invest in violence prevention and ensure safety for South Asian communities. ➡️ We invite you to add your support by reading, sharing, and signing the letter & statement at: bit.ly/endgbvletter As you engage, we invite you to be gentle with yourself. Together, we carry the weight of loss, and together, we build a future free of violence. 💜 Series by: South Asian SOAR | Artwork by: Naina Hussain (@bynainah on Instagram) #TheirLightRemains #GenderBasedViolence #DomesticViolence #SouthAsianSOAR

Governor Hochul has signed Melanie’s Law, which extends orders of protection to include family and household members of survivors of violence. This change addresses a significant protection gap and ensures more people can be safeguarded from violence. As a founding member of The Collective, Sakhi is deeply proud to have advocated for this critical legislation. This victory results from the hard work of many organizations and advocates, and it’s a meaningful step toward better-protecting survivors and their loved ones. Thank you to everyone who has supported this effort to continue the fight for healing and liberation. #MelaniesLaw #SurvivorAdvocacy #GenderJustice #TheCollective #PolicyChange

Philanthropy has the power to transform this crisis into a moment of possibility by resourcing grassroots organizations, amplifying community voices, and evolving funding strategies. Read how Sakhi's Executive Director, Kavita Mehra, calls for big philanthropy to meet the urgency of this moment and stand alongside grassroots movements fighting for justice. ✨ Click here read the full article: https://ow.ly/GKix50Ul4Kn

✨ Thank you for making Giving Tuesday extraordinary! ✨ Because of your generosity and belief in Sakhi’s mission, we’re thrilled to share that we met and exceeded our Giving Tuesday goal! This milestone would not have been possible without the unwavering support of our community—you inspire us every day to keep going. 💜 Your contributions directly fuel our work to support survivors, foster resilience, and advance gender justice in South Asian and Indo-Caribbean communities. We’re building a future defined by care, equity, and hope. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for standing with us and making a difference. 🌟 #GivingTuesdayWithSakhi #ThankYOU