Child Protection

A child cannot learn if the child is not safe. Child protection sits underneath everything else we do, because the barriers that keep children out of school are often the same as the harms that threaten them.

Child
Protection

A child cannot learn if the child is not safe
Child protection sits underneath everything else we do, because the barriers that keep children out of school are often the same as the harms that threaten them. Our child protection work is organised around six connected areas.

Sub-secort
programming

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Abuse Against Children

Abuse against children is not random. It happens in conditions that can be identified, and those conditions can be changed.

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Advocacy and Awareness Creation

Building the Public Will to Protect Children - A child protection system is only as strong as the public will behind it.

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Child Participation and Empowerment

Creating the Space for Children to Speak - Children are not only the objects of protection. They have views, and those views matter.

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Child Rights Campaigns

Closing the Distance Between Law and Lived Reality - Child rights campaigns are how we make children's rights real in the places where children live.

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Child Safeguarding

Building Policies That Actually Protect Children - Any organisation that works with children must be able to keep them safe. This is not a matter of good intentions.

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Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage

Ending Practices That Push Girls Out of School - Female genital mutilation and child marriage are among the most direct barriers to a girl's education in Kenya.