I felt unsafe on my program
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On my Dragons gap semester, I was sexually harassed by another student on the program. I came forward about my experience, but nothing was done. I was very traumatized by the incident and reached out again in tears but still nothing was done for the remainder of the program. The student was not talked to, sent home or required to room alone. I followed up with Dragons after to inquire about why nothing was done and the current (writing this in 2025) South Asia Program Coordinator's response was something along the lines of: serious situations like these can be difficult to talk about so we didn't want to bring it up to you. If they knew how serious it was, why was nothing done? I then reached out directly to the current Executive Director of Dragons who was not able to acknowledge that the sexual harassment was seriously mishandled/not handled at all. He gave a long explanation about how they have an improved understanding of co-gender dynamics which doesn't apply to this situation since the perpetrator was also a woman. I suspect that is the reason the situation had no response. I do feel that they mean well, but lack either the education to respond to sexual misconduct appropriately or a good communication system between headquarters and the in-country staff. Either way, their deficiencies resulted in my suffering.