Uber is donating the rides directly to domestic violence shelters, and each of those facilities will evaluate how to disperse them to women seeking to get away from toxic home environments.
Local shelters already have relationships with women who need help, and they’re continuing to take emergency hotline calls from survivors. So these centers are positioned to deploy the rides where they need to go, Randall said.
“We’re providing those ride codes to the actual organization and then they will work with the survivor to determine what would be a safe location to take them to,” said Tracey Breeden, head of women’s safety and gender-based violence programs at Uber.
Uber also will provide 45,000 free meals to survivors via donations to shelters.