SAFE STEPS
Helping Children Stay Safe
Every child deserves to grow up safe, confident, and able to reach their full potential.
Safe Steps is a school and community -based child safety programme designed to help children and young people understand personal safety, healthy boundaries, and how to respond to situations that make them feel uncomfortable or unsafe.
Through classroom activities, teacher training, and community education, Safe Steps helps create safer environments where children are informed, empowered, and able to seek help when needed.
Why Safe Steps
Children and young people face a range of risks both within and outside their communities. However, many have never been taught how to recognise unsafe situations, understand their rights, or know who they can turn to for support.
Safe Steps helps address this gap by providing age-appropriate child safety education within schools. The programme focuses on prevention, awareness, confidence-building, and creating a culture where children feel safe to speak up.
By working through schools, Safe Steps can reach large numbers of children in a familiar and supportive environment.
What Children Learn
The programme is adapted for different age groups and covers topics such as:
Understanding personal safety
Healthy relationships and boundaries
Recognising unsafe or inappropriate behaviour
Building confidence and self-esteem
Identifying trusted adults and support networks
Understanding children's rights
Knowing how and where to seek help
Staying safe at home, at school, and in the community
Sessions are interactive, engaging, and appropriate for the age and needs of participating children.
Working with Schools
Safe Steps is delivered in partnership with local schools.
Teachers receive training and resources before introducing Safe Steps sessions in their classrooms. Schools are then supported through follow-up visits and ongoing guidance to help ensure the programme is delivered effectively and that children continue to benefit from it.
This approach helps embed child safety education within the school environment, creating lasting impact beyond a single workshop or event.
Reaching Children Across Sindhupalchok
The programme recently completed its first teacher training workshop, bringing together 29 teachers from primary and secondary schools across Sindhupalchok District.
These teachers are now beginning to deliver Safe Steps activities within their schools, helping children gain practical knowledge and skills to support their safety and wellbeing.
As the programme develops, we plan to expand Safe Steps to additional schools and communities, reaching increasing numbers of children each year.
