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Image: Noah Denhe. Pexels.com  Hatima Yetu is a community-driven and evidence-based initiative focused on promoting empowerment, safety, health and resilience.   The organisation decided to join KCS Members Network to strengthen their commitment to safeguarding and ‘be part of a global community of practice that promotes learning, accountability, and shared safeguarding standards’ – as their representative expressed.  The team at Hatima Yetu is […]

Recently, several stories of Cameroonian children who have been abused emerged in African and international news. We sat in conversation with Berinyuy Naomi Kibula, KCS’s Africa Programme Manager and Co-Founder of Youth Ignite Cameroon, to unpack the emotions that these stories provoke, discuss the context of child abuse and propose actions to protect all children.  ‘The crisis of sexual violence against children

Keeping Children Safe (KCS) Certification provides independent external assurance that an organisation meets recognised standards in child safeguarding, demonstrating both competence and a strong commitment to protecting children from harm.  By achieving the KCS Certification, organisations signal that children’s safety is central to their work. The recognition strengthens trust with donors, partners and the wider public, enhancing the organisation’s

For His Children is an Ecuador-based organisation dedicated to serving children and young adults with disabilities. Upon joining the KCS Network, they expressed: ‘Safeguarding is not just a legal or administrative responsibility, it is a core expression of our mission and values. We want every member of our staff to understand their role in creating

We are pleased to welcome the Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment (SEARICE) into our Members’ Network; an organisation working to advance agroecology, seed conservation and farmers’ rights.  The organisation decided to join the network to strengthen their commitment to holistic and ethical development work. Although their programmes focus on agriculture, children in farmer

We are proud to announce the successful completion of an initiative commissioned by the Council of the Baltic Sea States in the context of an EU co-financed project to strengthen child protection and child safeguarding in Barnahus. The initiative was implemented in close collaboration with the Barnahus Network, a leading European network dedicated to protecting

KCS is glad to welcome a new team member: Freda Kukua Hammond, the first Apprentice on the new KCS Safeguarding Apprenticeship Programme.  Freda is based in Ghana, where she studies law at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration.  We asked Freda a few questions about her experience with child safeguarding and her motivation

Image: Patrika Sathi. Pexels.com  The New Life Mwangaza Rehabilitation Centre (NLMRC) has joined KCS Members Network to strengthen their commitment to protect at-risk, street-connected boys and ensuring their safety, dignity and wellbeing.  NLMRC’s director expressed that becoming a member is an important opportunity to enhance the organisation’s safeguarding systems, in line with global best practices

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,

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

We are honoured to recognise Janet Aguti, Founder and Director of the Totya Platform, as the Child Safeguarding Champion of the Year. Janet has transformed her personal experience as a survivor of sexual abuse into a powerful force for change, working to increase awareness and put real help into action to protect children in her