Several East Carolina University students continue to utilize âSafety Gals,â a private Facebook group, as a way to share safety tips and provide information for women in Greenville, North Carolina, about criminal activity on the rise on and off ECUâs campus.
âSafety Gals,â created by graduate student Lisa Khare in August 2020, aims to provide safety tips and information for women in Greenville and female students, with over 2,000 members and daily posts to make others aware of criminal activity in the area.
Khare said she created the âSafety Galsâ group after she experienced an incident on her way home from class where a man exposed himself to her from his car. She said she posted the incident on another Facebook group for ECU women to âclean out their closets,â âPirate Gals Buy/Sell/Trade,â where she received over 100 comments from other women who experienced similar or identical situations.