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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

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

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

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

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;

Kemonik works with children who are survivors/victims of abuse. With a clear focus on placing children’s safety at the heart of their work, they have taken the step of joining the KCS network to exchange knowledge with other organisations in the field and advance their child safeguarding practices. ‘Protecting children is our top priority’, stated

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