Women Fight Back

Women Fight Back is a free initiative for women to learn basic but effective self-defense skills. We aim to improve the safety and self-confidence of local women, and increase their awareness and chance of escaping a potentially unsafe situation.
Women Fight Back will hold 4 pilot events, and the first two have booked out within 24hrs. We have also received media exposure as well as offers to host further events from large national sporting organisations. This project can teach up to 240 local women how to defend themselves to a high level of competence with an in depth 4-week course.

Due to tragedies within the Melbourne region, the consciousness of women has never been so fixated upon our safety and our wellbeing. This project will increase the self-confidence, safety and self-esteem of local women and empower them to look after not only themselves, but their fellow friends, family and loved ones. Making our classes free of charge also enables us to train those women who are less likely to be able to financially afford this course, and due to socio-economic factors, would be most at risk of becoming a victim to crime related violence.