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Speaker 1: It's International Women's Day on Sunday, and Perth woman Casey

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Speaker 1: Edmonds is just certainly doing her bit to raise awareness

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Speaker 1: about women's safety. She is going to walk continuously from

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Speaker 1: sunset to sunrise on a ten k loop from McCallum

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Speaker 1: Park and Victoria Park along the Swan River to the

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Speaker 1: Narrows continuously? Did I say continuously? Casey's with us?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: Good morning? Good morning, Casey. This is the text me

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Speaker 1: when you get home walk. Women feeling unsafe at night

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Speaker 1: on the streets is a thing that I, with all

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Speaker 1: due respect for Russell, a lot of men will never

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Speaker 1: really understand the feeling of when you feel like you've

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Speaker 1: got to walk holding your keys between your fingers in

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Speaker 1: a weird way. You just don't get it.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: Increasingly men are becoming having to become a little more aware.

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Speaker 3: And I see a survey they're saying that even thirty

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Speaker 3: one percent of men are afraid to walk, certainly in

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Speaker 3: certain parts night. But there is no doubt that it

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Speaker 3: is certainly more.

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Speaker 2: Of a problem for it's just not experienced equally.

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Speaker 1: No, So tell us about the text me when you

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Speaker 1: get home campaign.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as I was sort of saying to you, guys.

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Speaker 2: Just before it started really really small. I've been volunteering

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Speaker 2: for a charity called We Are Women, and they focus

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Speaker 2: on teaching young people in schools, high schools, workplaces, and

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Speaker 2: new needs about consent, something that growing up in the

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Speaker 2: nineties I did not get taught in school, and something

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Speaker 2: that I think there's a lot of value in also

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Speaker 2: safe relationships, healthy relationships, everything to kind of go into

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Speaker 2: that prevention of family, domestic violence and violence against women.

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Speaker 2: So I was just trying to think of what I

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Speaker 2: can do. And I can't run and I can't swim,

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Speaker 2: so Rono swim was out of the question for me.

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Speaker 2: And also a marathon, so you know, I like to

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Speaker 2: walk and you're probably going to walk fifty.

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Speaker 3: K's though, Yeah, it's gonna be a long while, and

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Speaker 3: that's usually the scenario that women will find themselves and

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Speaker 3: it's walking home from somewhere.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's also I think I was on a

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Speaker 2: walk with my housemate around the Swan River and we're

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Speaker 2: kind of chating. I was like, oh my god, what

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Speaker 2: could I do? And like the sun was going down.

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, we better turn around because the

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Speaker 2: sun's going down. We're going to get home. And I

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Speaker 2: was like, oh, maybe that's it. I was like, how

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Speaker 2: about I walk after a night walk? And it's about

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Speaker 2: women's safety because you know, I planned my day around

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Speaker 2: sunset and sunrise, and so many women do. And I

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Speaker 2: didn't realize until that moment the mental load that we

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Speaker 2: go into to plan our days and to plan our nights,

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Speaker 2: and it isn't a shared experience. Obviously there is empathy

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Speaker 2: from you know, mass presenting in men. But the more

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Speaker 2: conversations I've had, they got oh wow, I wouldn't even

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Speaker 2: think about that, but yeah, I'm walking faster to get

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Speaker 2: home before sunset. Yeah, which is crazy.

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Speaker 1: You don't even realize you're doing it. You just do it.

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Speaker 1: Now you are raising funds, where will the funds go to?

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Speaker 2: The funds will go directly to the charity, which is

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Speaker 2: whe Are Women Are There For? And it's fully grassroots

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Speaker 2: Perth two PERF girls. They both work in teaching and

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Speaker 2: one works in health, so they've kind of joined forces

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Speaker 2: and they do all of these workshops. I also will

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Speaker 2: be facilitating these workshops in the in the new year,

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Speaker 2: so yeah, it's going directly back.

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Speaker 1: In How can people contribute?

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Speaker 2: So you can go to the website which is ww

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Speaker 2: dot We are WMMFMC dot com dot au and you

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Speaker 2: can donate directly to the text me when you get

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Speaker 2: home walk there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you've lived outside, you've lived in Perth, you've

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Speaker 1: lived it overseas, you've lived outside of Perth. Is this

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Speaker 1: similar everywhere do you find? Is this a Perth thing

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Speaker 1: or is this a universal thing? This is a world thing.

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Speaker 2: This is a world thing. Yeah, right, it doesn't matter

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Speaker 2: where you are in the world. We are very lucky

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Speaker 2: to live a relatively very safe city, right, I'm very

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Speaker 2: aware of that. But I have lived overseas. I was

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Speaker 2: a tour guide in Europe for three years, so I

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Speaker 2: was looking after young people all the time and being

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Speaker 2: in different situations. When you're not at home, you have

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Speaker 2: to take in a lot more about your surroundings. But

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Speaker 2: I've actually I still do that. Yeah, I still do

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Speaker 2: that for myself and I still do that for my friends.

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Speaker 2: Every single time I leave my friends, I say, text

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Speaker 2: me when you get home. And I'm not sure if

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Speaker 2: you can relate, you know, with the women in your life.

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Speaker 3: Because we're old, we remember a time before text.

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Speaker 1: Yes, in our day, we would your mum would say,

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Speaker 1: just ring me when you get home, just let it

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Speaker 1: ring twice and then hang out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the same concept. How long has that been.

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Speaker 1: Going on exactly forever? Whatever, Well, this is fantastic what

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Speaker 1: you're doing. And for a small fee, I'm hoping you'll

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Speaker 1: wear my fit bitch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I if anyone wants me to get your steps up,

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Speaker 2: come down sure to my own eye. Wellink it to

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Speaker 2: your conscious, link it to your conscious.

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Speaker 1: Point for all the information about the text me when

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Speaker 1: you get home walk head to we WM dot com

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Speaker 1: dot au Ford slash text me when you get home, Casey,

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Speaker 1: it's it's amazing what you're doing. Thank you, thank you

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Speaker 1: luck you'd luck have a great walk.

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Speaker 3: Make sure you wear your walter and comf your shoes.

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Speaker 2: Got it all sorted, Thank you,