Walk against Rape

SFWAR is the city’s only rape crisis center, providing resources and counseling to survivors of sexual assault. It also provides support, advocacy and education to strengthen the work of all individuals, and communities in San Francisco that are responding to, healing from, and struggling to end sexual violence.

In the U.S. every two minutes a person is sexually assaulted. Women in college are four times more likely to be assaulted, and two third of all rapes are committed by someone known to the victim. Only 40% of all assaults are reported, as the chances of convicting someone for rape are slim, and often don’t merit the trauma that the victims need to go through at courts and by the police. Only 6% of those persecuted for rape end up at prisons, 94% walk free.