Upscaling Child safety awareness

Children experience violence every day in all kinds of environments, within and outside schools. According to the Kenya Ministry of Labor and social protection 2020, around one in two young adults in Kenya experience violence as a child. Although Kenya has developed a strong policy framework to protect children against violence, some of the most resourceful institutions such as schools remain underused yet schools provide a pool of students who can be educated and empowered with knowledge and information about their rights.

Helping those in need

This project aims to achieve these set of objectives by the end of a two month period intervention

Objective 1: Enhance Awareness amongst children on their safety, what actions are not okay and are a form of abuse, how to maneuver their way out of danger.

Objective 2: Establish peer education clubs that encourage children to share information about protection and safeguarding.

Objective 3: Train lay providers on child protection approaches, including communication skills, validation, Juxtaposition, and confidentiality in creating a free and conversational environment for students to participate in the learning process.

Objective 4: Engage parents, teachers, and community leaders through workshops and dialogues to address abuse, reduce stigma, and promote positive attitudes towards child protection and safeguarding.

Objective 5: Work together with key players, such as government departments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and neighborhood groups, to promote child protection policies and initiatives.

Objective 6: Integrate gender-sensitive approaches into Child protection intervention to address power imbalances, harmful gender norms, and gender-based violence.

Objective 7: Conduct awareness campaigns through various media channels to educate children and parents about child protection and safeguarding covering topics such as methods for staying safe, how to evade danger, identifying unwanted and unsafe touches, identifying the parts of the body that are private and speaking up for ones rights.

"It is important for every child to be allowed to just be a child ."
Tadayo Joy 2023