There is a growing concern about supporting general people with location awareness applications, mainly when a person is in a vulnerable situation. The current rise of challenging situations where the number of cases of sexual abuse, kidnap, and murders have taken place in Bangladesh, location-aware solutions are considered to handle the ongoing concerns. However, location sensitivity requires to be privacy sensitive to ensure safety to individuals seeking help. There is a design requirement around flexibility to abstract one’s location to different sets of people. An android based mobile system on supporting location abstraction to ensure privacy is presented here featured as “I am Here.” The design process involved inquiries from 84 individuals (51 female). The system has been deployed and evaluated in four different regions of urban and rural setup on 107 individuals (57 female).
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