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You are safe to start here

You are not alone.

If something feels wrong, start here.

Find local support

Find help where you are.

Choose your country or region to find verified support options, emergency contacts, hotlines, chat services, and local organizations.

If you are in immediate danger, contact local emergency services now. Hear Me Help is a public resource directory, not an emergency service, hotline, shelter, law firm, medical provider, counseling provider, or crisis-response service.

Resource information can change. Services, hours, eligibility, and response times are controlled by each organization. Please confirm details directly with the organization when possible.

Help Me Now

Keep help within reach.

Save trusted contacts, prepare a message, access support links, and keep safety options ready on your phone. No account required.

Messages are never sent automatically.

  • Trusted contacts
  • Prepared messages
  • Support links
  • Safety tools

Abuse is not rare.

It affects people across countries, cultures, ages, genders, and backgrounds.

  • Nearly

    1 in 3

    women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence.

    Source: WHO

  • More than

    370 million

    girls and women experienced rape or sexual assault before age 18.

    Source: UNICEF

  • 240 to 310 million

    boys and men experienced rape or sexual assault during childhood.

    Source: UNICEF

  • Children make up about

    38%

    of detected trafficking victims worldwide.

    Source: UNODC

The numbers are global. The need for help is personal.

Hear Me Help Awareness Video

Sometimes being heard is where help begins.

A visual message about the scale of abuse, the people it affects, and why reaching out matters.

Understanding abuse

Something feels wrong, but I’m not sure what it is.

Abuse is not always obvious. It can involve pressure, control, threats, unwanted contact, humiliation, fear, isolation, or someone using power to silence you.

Understand the signs

Signs to watch for

  • Unwanted or uncomfortable sexual talk, texts, images, videos, or requests
  • Inappropriate touching, pressure, exposure, or requests for private images
  • Threats, humiliation, fear, or being told not to tell anyone
  • Someone using age, authority, money, religion, popularity, or a relationship to pressure or silence you

These signs may indicate abuse, exploitation, coercion, or unsafe behavior. If something feels wrong, consider speaking with a trained advocate, trusted adult, qualified professional, or local support organization.

If leaving, refusing, or speaking up could increase danger, consider speaking with a trained local advocate about safer next steps.

  • Emotional abuse
  • Physical harm
  • Sexual harm
  • Coercive control
  • Financial abuse
  • Online abuse
  • Trafficking & exploitation

Safety first

You do not have to leave before you are ready.

If leaving, refusing, or speaking up could make things more dangerous, focus first on what helps you stay safer and keep access to support.

See safer next steps

Safer next steps

Move at your own pace, but stay aware of what keeps you safest. If leaving or speaking up is not safe right now, focus on reducing risk and keeping access to help.

  • Choose the place where you feel least at risk
  • Keep a way to reach help nearby if you can
  • Avoid actions that could escalate the situation
  • Save important numbers where you can reach them later
  • If safe, quietly confide in someone you trust — a relative, teacher, doctor, nurse, counselor, or trusted adult
  • Trust your sense of what is safe

Your safety matters more than speed.

Visiting support websites can leave a digital trail. If you think your device is being monitored, consider using a safer device.

Helping someone else

Worried about someone you know?

You can help without blaming, pressuring, or making the situation more dangerous.

  • Ask gently and privately.
  • Listen without judgment.
  • Avoid confrontation that could increase risk.
  • Help them reach support safely.
  • Friends
  • Family
  • Teachers
  • Coworkers
  • Community leaders
  • Advocates
  • Influencers
How to help someone

If you see or suspect someone is being hurt, do not ignore it

  • Ask gently and privately
  • Do not blame them
  • Do not confront the person causing harm without a safety plan
  • Help them reach support safely
  • Act immediately if someone is in danger

Learn & share

Understanding can help someone sooner.

Explore plain-language information, global statistics, warning signs, safety resources, and awareness materials you can share with others.

Questions you may be asking yourself

What if I am not sure this is abuse?

If someone is hurting, threatening, pressuring, controlling, touching, scaring, or isolating you, take it seriously. You do not need the perfect label before asking for help.

What if I cannot safely call?

Use text, chat, or a safer device if one is available. If someone checks your phone, be careful with searches, messages, browser history, and saved contacts. When possible, use a trusted person's phone or a public device.

What if I am scared no one will believe me?

That fear is common, especially when someone has used power, secrecy, money, status, family pressure, or threats. Tell one safe person. If the first person does not help, tell someone else.

What if the person hurting me is family, a partner, teacher, boss, religious leader, or someone respected?

Abuse can come from someone known, trusted, admired, or powerful. Their role does not make harm acceptable. You still deserve support.

What if I am a boy or man?

This site is for you too. Boys and men can be hurt, threatened, controlled, exploited, or abused. Asking for help does not make you weak. It means what happened matters.

What if I am LGBTQ+?

You deserve help without shame or judgment. Abuse is never acceptable because of who you are, who you love, how you identify, or what someone threatens to reveal about you.

What if I cannot leave right now?

Leaving is not always safe immediately. Focus first on lowering risk: stay near safer spaces, keep help within reach, avoid escalation when possible, and tell one trusted person if it is safe.

What if I am worried about someone else?

Do not ignore it. Ask gently and privately. Do not blame, pressure, or confront the person who may be causing harm without a safety plan. Help the person reach trusted support.

What if my country is not listed?

Use the closest emergency number where you are, a local hospital or clinic, a trusted school or community authority, or a verified local abuse support organization. Hear Me Help will continue adding region-specific resources as the project grows.

Is Hear Me Help an emergency service?

No. Hear Me Help is not an emergency service, hotline, shelter, law enforcement agency, medical provider, counseling provider, or law firm. If you are in immediate danger, contact local emergency services now.

How common is abuse around the world?

Abuse is not rare, and it is not limited to one country, culture, class, gender, or age group. The four statistics in the “Abuse is not rare” section above come from WHO, UNICEF, and UNODC.

This is why support must be easier to find, easier to trust, and easier to begin. Hear Me Help is building toward that.

See all global statistics.

Can Hear Me Help tell me what to do?

No. We provide general information and resource links. We cannot give legal, medical, mental-health, immigration, financial, or personal safety advice for your specific situation. For guidance on your situation, contact a qualified local professional or trained advocate.

Are the listed resources guaranteed to be current?

No. We try to keep information accurate, but phone numbers, text lines, service hours, eligibility, and availability can change. Always confirm details directly with the organization when possible.

Does Hear Me Help send messages for me?

No. The Help Me Now app can help prepare a message to a trusted contact, but your phone's messaging app must send it. Messages are never sent automatically.

Does Hear Me Help store my contacts or location?

The Help Me Now app is designed to keep trusted contacts, selected region, and message preferences on your device when possible. Hear Me Help does not intentionally store your trusted contacts, message contents, or precise location on our servers.

Are listed organizations official partners?

Not unless clearly stated. A listed organization is a third-party resource. Listing an organization does not mean that it sponsors, endorses, or is affiliated with Hear Me Help.

About Hear Me Help

Know what this resource does, and what it does not do.

Hear Me Help is a public resource designed to make support easier to find and understand.

Independent resource

Organizations listed on Hear Me Help are third-party resources unless a partnership is clearly stated.

Privacy-conscious

The Help Me Now app is designed to keep trusted contacts and message preferences on your device when possible.

No automatic messages

Your phone’s messaging app must send any prepared message.

Information can change

Phone numbers, service hours, eligibility, and availability should be confirmed directly with each organization.

How resources are verified

If a service phone number cannot be verified, the organization is not listed as an active support option. If a verified phone number exists but no verified website does, a phone-only listing is acceptable. Listed organizations are third-party resources, not endorsements or partners, unless a partnership is clearly stated.

About this resource

Hear Me Help exists because abuse is not rare, and finding help should not be hard.

This site is for anyone — regardless of age, gender, country, or background — who needs support, information, or a safer next step.

Hear Me Help is building toward a centralized public resource that helps people find support options more quickly, while encouraging users to contact qualified local professionals and emergency services when needed.

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