Child Protection Interventions

Donate to Child Protection Interventions and empower our church partners to protect children from unthinkable dangers including abuse, child trafficking, gang violence and neglect.

Our staff and volunteers are in a unique position to identify the warning signs of when a child is in danger and take immediate action. They can facilitate crucial child protection training to keep children safe in the first place.

Compassion’s Child Protection Interventions provide emergency care and legal support for children, counselling and social support for those affected by trauma, and vital child protection training for families.

The reality is...

Around 6 in 10 children between the ages of 2 and 14 worldwide are subjected to physical punishment on a regular basis.

Around 120 million girls under the age of 20 (about 1 in 10) have been subjected to forced sexual intercourse or other forced sexual acts at some point in their lives.

Thanks to the generous support of Compassion UK supporters, over 5,700 adults have been trained through child protection workshops and over 13,000 parents have attended a positive parenting course. Over 8,500 parents have been trained in how to prevent child marriage. 

With your help we can...

Equip our church partners to provide anti-child trafficking training and resources.

Provide crucial child protection training for caregivers and wider community members.

Give the most vulnerable girls professional trauma counselling and support.

You can protect young people like Pepe from exploitation

 Ten-year-old Pepe should be playing with his friends or studying in school, but every one of the 50 cents he earns for a 12-hour day at the banana plantation counts towards his family’s meals.

It’s the same for many of Ecuador’s children, around 18 per cent of whose families survive on less than 90p a day. Children like Pepe, aged between seven and 14 years old, are exploited as cheap agricultural labour – at great cost to their health, their future and their freedom.

“It is difficult to see so many children working hard in the fields while they stop studying, just to try to earn a few cents. It’s heart breaking,” says Pastor Salomón, of the local Compassion project. “It is everyone’s job to prevent children from working and being mistreated.”

Through love, support and counselling funded by Child Protection Interventions, Pepe’s local church helped to release him from child labour in the plantation. Pepe is no longer exploited – he has more energy, he laughs more, he comes to church with his family – and he’s even going to school.