· How the company
started? Where did the idea of the Fightback program come from? Who is the
inspiration?
The Fight Back program
was first developed in 2013 by Paritran’s Director and co-founder, Vikrant
Pandey (who holds a black belt in Chinese Martial Arts), in collaboration with
Mr. Uddab Thapa Magar (a highly experienced practitioner of martial arts and
self-defense). Vikrant’s work in risk management combined with his martial arts
background gave him the idea to combine self-defense with risk and safety awareness
training. From start, the Fight Back curriculum has been indigenously developed
using a Human-Centered Design approach, through an iterative process of
continuously adapting the curriculum based on input/feedback from end-users.
·
What is fightback?
Fight Back is a sexual violence risk reduction education program for women and girls which develops their critical Mental, Vocal and Physical Skills to prevent, mitigate and manage the risk of sexual violence.
The current Education
System has more emphasis on developing Learn and Earn Skills of women and
girls, which is absolutely necessary and important in regard to their
overall Empowerment. However, a very important aspect of personal empowerment
is developing individual Safety skills, for which our education system has
little or no emphasis.
Traditional Martial
Arts and Combat based Competitive Sports Systems provide physical skills but
fall short to address developing specialized mental and vocal skills to deal
with sexual violence. We believe in the multi-disciplinary approach which combines
Risk Management Skills with Reality Based Self Defense Systems.
Vision
A society free from the risk of sexual violence.
Mission
To build mental, vocal and
physical safety skills to be safe.
Goal
To increase the prevention and
response skills of individuals.
Purpose
Reduce/manage vulnerabilities of
targeted women trainees towards sexual violence