SAFE STEPS
Helping Children Stay Safe
Every child deserves to feel safe, confident, and protected as they grow and learn.
Safe Steps is a school and community-based child protection programme that helps children and young people understand personal safety, healthy boundaries, and how to respond when they feel uncomfortable or unsafe.
Through classroom learning, teacher training, and community engagement, Safe Steps helps create environments where children are informed, empowered, and confident to seek help when needed.
Why Safe Steps Matters
Many children grow up without learning how to recognise unsafe situations, understand their rights, or know who they can turn to for help. This leaves them vulnerable both in and outside of school.
Safe Steps addresses this gap by providing structured, age-appropriate child protection education within schools.
The programme focuses on:
Prevention through awareness
Building confidence and self-esteem
Strengthening communication and trust
Creating a culture where children feel safe to speak up
By working through schools, Safe Steps reaches children in a familiar, trusted environment where learning is most effective and lasting.
What Children Learn
Safe Steps is adapted for different age groups and delivered in an interactive, engaging way.
Understanding Safety
Personal safety and healthy boundaries
Recognising unsafe or inappropriate behaviour
Building Confidence
Self-esteem and confidence-building
Understanding children’s rights
Getting Help
Identifying trusted adults and support networks
How and where to seek help
Staying Safe in Daily Life
Safety at home, school, and in the community
These sessions are practical, discussion-based, and designed to give children real-life skills they can use every day.
Working with Schools
Safe Steps is delivered in close partnership with local schools.
Teachers receive dedicated training before introducing Safe Steps sessions in their classrooms. This ensures they feel confident and supported in delivering sensitive and important child protection topics.
Schools are then supported through follow-up visits and ongoing guidance to strengthen delivery and ensure long-term impact.
This approach ensures that child safety education becomes part of everyday learning, not a one-off lesson or workshop.
Reaching Children Across Sindhupalchok
The Safe Steps programme recently completed its first teacher training workshop, bringing together 29 teachers from primary and secondary schools across Sindhupalchok District.
These teachers are now actively delivering Safe Steps sessions in their schools, helping children build awareness, confidence, and practical skills to stay safe and seek help when needed.
This marks an important first step in a wider rollout, with plans to expand Safe Steps to more schools and communities in the coming years.
Building Safer Futures Together
Safe Steps is about more than education—it is about prevention, protection, and empowerment.
With the right knowledge and support, children are better able to understand their rights, recognise risks, and speak up when something is wrong.
Your Support Makes This Possible
Your support helps us train teachers, reach more schools, and keep children safe.
Every contribution helps expand Safe Steps to more communities across Nepal, ensuring more children have the knowledge and confidence they need to protect themselves.
Together, we can help every child take their first safe steps toward a brighter future.