About Imaara
Meet Our Founder
Get to know our founder, her incredible journey, and the inspiration behind starting this mission to help others. Discover how her personal experiences and passion for advocacy led to the creation of our organization, dedicated to supporting and empowering survivors of violence. Her unwavering commitment to making a difference drives our mission.
What We Stand For
Our projects broadly focus on providing survivor-centric resources for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, including legal, medical, and psychosocial assistance. We aim to shed light on the psychological processes and the concept of trauma, normalizing the survivor experience and highlighting individual differences. We prioritize training on bystander intervention and support, and engage in research to establish survivor-oriented systems that emphasize warmth, sensitivity, care, receptivity, and intersectionality. Additionally, our research seeks to increase aggressor accountability and promote reform to prevent re-offense.
Who We Are
Imaara Survivor Support Foundation is a non-governmental organization working towards preventing and ultimately ending sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in the Indian context. Our work is rooted in prioritizing survivor-oriented remedial approaches and also highlights the significance of bystander intervention and support.
What We Do
“Why was the onus on us to seek reparation and rehabilitation? Why are we shamed, blamed, and judged for the wrongful actions of another? What wrong did we do to experience this darkness while the person or people who committed the harm were unapologetically at liberty?”
- Rasika Sundaram