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Candlelight for Empowerment CBO joins the KCS network 

Picture: Inyambo. Pexels.com We are pleased to welcome Candlelight for Empowerment CBO into our members network; an organisation working to advance access to education, protection and sustainability for vulnerable young people in Kenya.  Lilian Mamu, founder and Executive Director of the organisation stated that they are ‘delighted to become members and look forward to learning, […]

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Fundacion por Nuestros Ninos joins the KCS Network 

Image: Kampus Production / Pexels.com We are pleased to announce that Fundacion por Nuestros Ninos has joined the KCS as a Member.  Mindful of the important role played by schools in identifying and preventing child abuse at home, Fundacion por Nuestros Ninos promotes a collective community-based strategy to address violence against children in Argentina.   Since

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KCS and Safe in Town: shaping safer cities for children 

Picture: Bulat Khamitov pexels.com Under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, governments have the obligation to protect children from all forms of abuse and neglect. Meeting this responsibility requires a coordinated set of laws, policies, regulations and services.  At local level, these systems often fall short in ensuring that every child

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Pastoral Women’s Council: a new member of the KCS Network 

We are pleased to announce that the Pastoral Women’s Council (PWC) is now part of the KCS’s Members Network!  PWC is an organisation that works to empower indigenous pastoralist women and girls from the Maasai, Sonjo, Akie, Barabaig, Tatoga and Hadzabe communities in Africa. Their programmes are designed to achieve lasting and sustainable impact across

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POPI: SOS Children’s Villages Spain’s Child Safeguarding superhero 

Image: SOS Children’s Villages Spain Recently, SOS Children’s Villages Spain renewed its KCS Level 1 Certification. For this article, we spoke with Concha Maldonado Calvo, National Child Safeguarding Focal Point and Maria del Mar Líndez Líndez, member of the Management group. Both shared how the audit and certification process not only strengthened good practices among

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The International Bureau for Children’s Rights joins the KCS network 

Image: Pexels We are proud to welcome the International Bureau for Children’s Rights (IBCR), a distinguished child rights organisation founded in 1994, as the newest member of the KCS Network. With three decades of experience, the organisation has worked to strengthen justice and protection systems for children and to transform the way children are valued

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Aralma joins the KCS network to strengthen child safeguarding 

Image: Aralma We are pleased to announce that Aralma has joined the KCS member network. With an intersectional, gender-sensitive and rights-based approach, Aralma has been working for over twenty years in Argentina, to defend the rights of children and adult survivors/victims of violence in their childhood.  For Aralma, ‘child safeguarding is not just a goal;

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Members Spotlight: KCS network grows in Brazil 

In this month’s Members Spotlight, we are happy to shine a light on our growing network in Brazil.    This time we want to introduce Pavement Project (Projeto Calçada), a team dedicated to responding to the traumas experienced by at-risk children and teenagers around the world.   Pavement Project’s Global Director Clenir Santos highlights the importance of

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A year in review 

At the start of the new financial year, we want to share what the KCS team has been up to these past months. Read on to find some highlights and achievements we are proud of, as we continue to work to strengthen child safeguarding practices around the world.  Expanding our reach Between 2024 and the beginning

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Members Spotlight: Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS) Safeguarding Standards 

PEAS is a not-for-profit organisation, focusing on expanding education opportunities to those that need them the most. They built and currently run a network of 38 secondary schools in rural areas of Uganda and Zambia. PEAS also works with governments to support another 300+ schools across Uganda, Zambia and Ghana.  Today, we want to highlight

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