the blaque room
The Blaque Room is an community organisation started in in the hopes of
highlighting the realities of sexual assault, human trafficking and similar
atrocities. Although this is the case The Blaque Room also prides itself on
being a place that offers some solutions by signposting people to organizations
that can help, safety apps and also by being a supplier of personal safety
devices. Established in November 2020 after a viral sexual assault video took
the internet by storm, The Blaque Room saw the need to make young women and boys
feel safe. Therefore, put up a post detailing the plan of supplying personal
safety alarms to THIRTY young people in the local area and was soon inundated
with thousands of requests for an alarm, thousands in donations and thousands of
messages of support and also messages of people who have overcome and are still
going through various forms of abuse. People of all ages, races and genders were
thrilled with the idea of there being an organization that seeks to tackle
sexual assault head on and provide a deterrent/ solution. Being an open and
transparent organization, anonymized messages and requests would often be shared
with followers of the page to keep them updated and make them aware of the
demand. Since then, The Blaque Room has had the honour of providing over seven
hundred young people across England with personal safety devices for free. A
significant amount of the recipients has had to use their alarms and have in
fact attributed them to saving their life.
