What we do

These are some of our current projects: (click on each for details)

• Evidence that our vocational training programme dramatically helps children

• Helping children to protect themselves

• Helping children in Soweto

• Helping children to be happy, healthy and safe

• We are finding out more about perpetrators

• Why what we do matters

• Making sure we know the facts (this page)

Making sure we know the facts

What is the source of much of our information, and where do many of our research quotes come from?

Well, apart from all the research and information from established organisations in South Africa, I belong to the ‘International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect’ [known as ISPCAN] based in Chicago, USA. Many individuals and organisations from different countries around the world belong to or are affiliated to this important body giving me access to considerable expertise, information, research, and contacts in the whole international field of child abuse. This information is invaluable when we are considering how next to make connections and help break the cycle of abuse – it also means we can spend our slender resources on activities that we know will make a difference rather than making guesses.

In future I will aim to post anything, or links, I come across that I think might be really useful whether from them or any other research body – providing I can get permission of course!.

Lesley Rudd