The Safe Home Project
A Free Literature Initiative to Prevent Abuse, Protect Vulnerable People and Build Safer Homes
An Initiative by Hope Publishing, Singapore
Project Initiator: Sam Choo, Author and Publisher
Introduction
Domestic violence destroys lives, damages families, and leaves emotional scars that can last for years. Many victims suffer in silence because they are afraid, financially dependent, ashamed, or uncertain about where to seek help.
Abuse within households affects more than husbands and wives. Children may experience physical or emotional abuse, neglect, or sexual abuse. Elderly parents and people with disabilities may suffer mistreatment or exploitation. Domestic helpers may also face violence, humiliation, and abuse in the very homes where they work.
Family members, friends, neighbours, and community leaders may recognise that something is wrong but have little understanding of how to respond safely.
I believe education and awareness can play an important role in preventing abuse and helping those affected by it.
As an author and publisher based in Singapore, I would like to contribute my writing and publishing skills to this cause.
I am establishing The Safe Home Project, an initiative to build a free digital library of accessible, practical educational literature addressing abuse and violence within households.
I am reaching out to advocates, counsellors, social workers, child protection specialists, and organisations to explore opportunities for collaboration.
Our Mission
The Safe Home Project is a free literature initiative by Hope Publishing, Singapore, dedicated to preventing abuse and violence within households, protecting vulnerable people, supporting survivors, and promoting awareness and accountability.
Through accessible educational books developed with professional guidance and review, we aim to help make every home a place of safety, dignity, and respect for everyone, including family members and domestic workers.
What We Plan to Publish
The Safe Home Project aims to develop a library of 40 free ebooks, covering different forms of abuse, their effects, prevention, and ways to seek help.
The books will be short, practical, and written in simple English so that people from different backgrounds can understand them.
Our proposed publications will focus on three main areas.
1. Supporting Victims and Survivors
Helping people recognise abuse, understand their options, access professional support, and make informed decisions about their safety.
This includes people experiencing intimate partner violence, child abuse, elder abuse, caregiver abuse, and mistreatment of domestic workers.
2. Educating Families and Communities
Helping relatives, friends, neighbours, teachers, employers, and community members recognise warning signs and respond appropriately when someone they know is experiencing abuse.
We also want to raise awareness of less visible forms of abuse, including emotional abuse, coercive control, neglect, and financial exploitation.
3. Preventing Abusive Behaviour
Challenging attitudes that normalise violence, promoting healthy relationships, and encouraging individuals who use violence to take responsibility for their behaviour and seek appropriate professional intervention.
Prevention also includes educating parents about nonviolent discipline, encouraging respectful treatment of elderly family members, and promoting the dignity and rights of domestic workers.
How Advocates and Organisations Can Help
I recognise that domestic violence and other forms of household abuse are complex and sensitive issues requiring specialised knowledge and experience.
While I can contribute writing, editing, formatting, and publishing expertise, I would value the involvement of professionals who work directly with victims, survivors, vulnerable people, and individuals who use abusive behaviour.
I am seeking collaboration in two main areas.
1. Reviewing and Verifying Our Publications
I invite qualified advocates, counsellors, social workers, child protection specialists, and other relevant professionals to review draft manuscripts.
Your professional input can help ensure that the information is accurate, practical, sensitive to survivors' experiences, and consistent with recognised safety practices.
We particularly welcome guidance on safety planning, available support services, legal information, harmful misconceptions, and advice that could unintentionally place victims at greater risk.
Different publications will require different areas of expertise. For example, books addressing child abuse should be reviewed by professionals familiar with child safeguarding, while publications concerning domestic workers should be reviewed by people knowledgeable about migrant worker protection.
Even reviewing a single booklet or recommending improvements would be a valuable contribution.
2. Helping Distribute Free Literature
Once reviewed and approved for publication, the ebooks will be made available free of charge.
We invite organisations to share suitable publications through their websites, community programmes, counselling services, educational activities, and other appropriate channels, taking into account the privacy and safety of those receiving them.
Organisations may also recommend topics that would be particularly useful to the people they serve.
Our aim is to make these educational resources available wherever they can help people recognise abuse, find support, and prevent further harm.
What Hope Publishing Will Contribute
I will contribute my time and publishing experience to:
- Research and write accessible educational manuscripts.
- Edit and revise manuscripts based on professional feedback.
- Format and design the publications.
- Produce downloadable digital editions.
- Maintain and expand the free literature library.
- Make reviewed and approved publications available for free distribution.
There will be no charge to readers for accessing the digital publications.
The project will begin on a modest scale, with the aim of building a growing collection of useful resources over time.
Our Target Launch: 25 November 2026
We are working towards launching The Safe Home Project on 25 November 2026, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
This date marks the beginning of the annual 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign, which runs until 10 December, International Human Rights Day.
We hope to use this occasion to introduce our initiative and make our first professionally reviewed educational publications available for free.
The number of books available at launch will depend on the completion of the necessary professional reviews.
Our longer-term goal is to build a library of 40 free ebooks, with the possibility of expanding the collection and translating selected publications into other languages.
An Invitation to Collaborate
I believe literature can make a meaningful contribution to preventing abuse and violence within households.
A booklet may help someone recognise that what they are experiencing is abuse.
A practical guide may help a concerned family member understand how to offer support safely.
An educational publication may challenge beliefs that allow violence and controlling behaviour to continue.
My hope is to build a library of free literature that advocates and organisations can confidently recommend to the people they serve.
I am not seeking financial sponsorship at this stage.
I am seeking partners who can contribute their professional knowledge by reviewing our manuscripts and, where appropriate, helping distribute the completed publications.
You do not need to commit to the entire project. Reviewing one booklet, recommending a topic, or helping distribute a suitable publication would already be a meaningful contribution.
If you are a domestic violence advocate, counsellor, social worker, child protection specialist, migrant worker advocate, or representative of an organisation working in this field, I would welcome the opportunity to discuss how we might collaborate.
Together, we can make reliable information more accessible and contribute to safer homes and communities.
Every home should be a place of safety, not fear.
Sam Choo
Author and Publisher
Hope Publishing, Singapore
WhatsApp: +65 9771 7614
