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Chayn helps women experiencing abuse find the right information and support they need to take control of their lives.

We are an award-winning, open-source project run by 400 volunteers and survivors from 15 countries. Our resources are openly-licensed, multi-lingual and intersectional - so charities around the world can use, remix and distribute our work!

We organise on gender-based violence, specifically:
✊🏿ending domestic abuse
👊🏽tackling tech-facilitated harassment and stalking
💪🏻tackling sexual assault

Our feminism is intersectional and we believe in creating an open culture of collaboration in both the tech for good and women's rights sector - redistributing power dynamics for a fairer world.

Over the past 6 years, we've reached more than 300,000 people across the world. See our impact reports! Most of this has been powered by volunteer hours and a few grants here and there.

✨ What do we create?

1. Digital services:
Our ambitious move to plugging the digital services gap in an environment where charity funding is being cut down. We have recently built Bloom, a remote trauma support service, offering video courses and reflective webchat that combine the insights of survivors globally with therapeutic practices to support survivors in healing from trauma. We have also in the past built Soul Medicine a micro-course platform where users can choose to access the courses online or via email. Topics can range from things like "How to open a bank account" to "How to build a domestic abuse case without a lawyer".

2. How To Guides:
Easy to follow crowdsourced guides in multiple languages such as How to Build Your Own Domestic Violence Case Without A Lawyer, DIY Online Safety and Getting Better & Moving On.

3. Country or theme-specific platforms:
Putting local information & support at the fingertips of survivors such as Chayn Italia/India/Pakistan and the Supernova Project, addressing abuse within the LGBTQIA+ communities*.

💕 How we work

We work remotely and have documented our practices here.

👋 Meet the team

We're a volunteer-run project but when we get grants, we work with contractors for tech development, UX and design. A remote team means it's hard to get a lot of us in one place but a few of us are in the UK. We could post so many pictures of our team in Italy, US, Pakistan, India but there's not enough space. We've sneaked in a cute picture for you from our last event in London.

🙏 Rewards and thanks:

We really appreciate your support as we want to move away from being solely reliant on volunteer hours and grant money. We want Chayn to keep going because the work that we do changes the lives of those who feel helpless and alone. One drawback of being volunteer-run means we can't offer regular rewards because it's hard to guarantee consistency due to varying volunteer commitments so we've come up with creative alternatives! We hope you like them.

We're on twitter, facebook and instagram. Follow us!

If you can't give money but have the time to be a regular volunteer, sign up here. We're always looking for new people to join our community.

Current sponsors 10

@ktravers
@adrianmg
@nnichols
@harsh183
@sruti
Private Sponsor
@zkat
Private Sponsor
Private Sponsor
@malakumar85

Past sponsors 46

@brianlovin
@jithinraj
Private Sponsor
@derekprior
@katmeister
@yassskitt
@coilysiren
@max
@mamuso
@sophshep
@ampinsk
@yaili
@1000miles
@OlgaShldrr
@berndpl
@brennanbrown
@schalkventer
@tmm

Meet the team

Featured work

  1. chaynHQ/soulmedicine

    Soul Medicine a multilingual digital service designed to deliver critical safety information and supportive messaging in bite-sized pieces.

    Ruby 30
  2. chaynHQ/little-window

    Little Window was a clever little cat chatbot that directed women experiencing abuse to the information they are looking for as quickly as possible. Learn why we archived this project and our resea…

    JavaScript 41
  3. chaynHQ/bloom-frontend

    Code for the for the frontend of the Bloom service.

    TypeScript 15
  4. chaynHQ/bloom-backend

    Code for the backend / API of the Bloom service

    TypeScript 12

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$2 a month

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Get the feeling of satisfaction that your spare change is helping us buy stickers for our volunteer community!

$10 a month

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Lots of virtual love and exclusive access to our yearly thank-you video! If you pledge $10 a month, over a year you would have paid for the cost of one or two of our domains.

$20 a month

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Help us pay for the costs of hosting our sites! You'll be able to suggest themes for our podcast and if we pick one up, we'll give you a shout on it.

$50 a month

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Bravo! If you go for this, you could cover most of the cost of our CRM which helps multiple volunteers manage our multiple inboxes. In return, we'll send you a digital copy of our annual impact report a day before anyone else!

$100 a month

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Incredible! If you go for this, you could cover most of the cost of our tech products and services such as Heroku, firebase and mailgun. In return, you'll get all of the above and we'll send you a chayn themed wallpapers for your mobile!

$200 a month

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You're a super fan. You could cover the cost of our accountants and admin! This is the bit most grant funders don't like to cover and we need.

As a way of saying thank you, you'll get all of the above and we'll give you a shout on our social media as well as on a special page on chayn.co! You will also get a few of our stickers in your post.

$500 a month

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Our favourite and most substantial supporter! This could pay for developer time, which at the moment is the one that we need the most help with. It ensures our projects are safe for survivors to use, evolving with user feedback and scaling.

How will we say thank you?

  • A big shout out on our social media!
  • A mention on our special page on chayn.co!
  • Access to exclusive video from our Founder every now and then updating you on our progress.
  • And if you happen to be in London (UK), Manchester (UK), Chicago (US), Athens (Greece) and Bengaluru (India) - we'll take you out for coffee!*

*Please note that even though we really appreciate this level of support, our volunteers and staff will not tolerate any harassment.

$1,000 a month

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Superstar.

How will we say thank you?

  • A big shout out on our social media!
  • A mention on our special page on chayn.co!
  • Access to exclusive video from our Founder every now and then updating you on our progress.
  • And if you happen to be in London (UK), Manchester (UK), New York (US), Chicago (US), Athens (Greece) and Bengaluru (India) - we'll take you out for coffee!*
  • A 10 mins talk by our founder or our volunteer for your event or organisation*.

*Please note that even though we really appreciate this level of support, our volunteers and staff will not tolerate any harassment
*Subject to expenses being covered, availability & the theme

$2,000 a month

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Superstar.

How will we say thank you?

  • A big shout out on our social media!
  • A mention on our special page on chayn.co!
  • Access to exclusive video from our Founder every now and then updating you on our progress.
  • If you happen to be in London (UK), Manchester (UK), New York (US), Chicago (US), Athens (Greece) and Bengaluru (India) - we'll take you out for coffee!*
  • A 20 mins talk by our founder or our volunteer for your event or organisation*.
  • And our most exclusive reward: give early feedback on our products & help us name them!

*Please note that even though we really appreciate this level of support, our volunteers and staff will not tolerate any harassment
*Subject to expenses being covered, availability & the them