Hanoi sets example on how to make cities safer for girls

Adolescent girls and boys are roped in to audit their streets and routes in Hanoi with the guidance of Plan International under one of its Safer Cities For Girls project.

INSTEAD of telling girls not to use an “unsafe” underpass route, an organisation for girls’ rights made that route safer with the community getting involved.

To get the initiative under way, an audit involving 60 boys and 60 girls from the neighbourhood was done.