Every child deserves a dignified life and that is attainable.
We work with the most vulnerable children, those who have suffered violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation, as well as children at heightened risk due to poverty, insecurity, harmful social norms, and weak protection systems. Our approach recognizes that child protection must address both risk and harm:
Preventing abuse before it occurs and Responding with urgency, care, and justice when it does.
Through legal representation, rescue and restoration, psychosocial support, education sponsorship, community sensitization, economic empowerment, and policy advocacy, Friends for Justice addresses violence against children across the full continuum of prevention, protection, recovery, stability, and accountability.
Our Vision
To foster a society where every child thrives, free from injustice, violence, abuse, and exploitation.
Our Mission
To ensure justice and holistic well-being for children who have suffered injustice, irrespective of age, race, or gender.
Our Approach
From risk to protection. From injustice to justice. From harm to healing.
Friends for Justice applies an integrated, rights-based, and survivor-centred approach that addresses violence against children across the full continuum:
Prevention
Response
Recovery
Stability
Accountability
Prevention
Response
Recovery
Stability
Accountability
We recognize that children are most at risk in everyday spaces homes, schools, and communities but that these same spaces can become the strongest lines of defence when equipped with the right knowledge, systems, and accountability. Our work therefore strengthens both formal and informal child protection systems, while ensuring survivors receive timely rescue, care, and access to justice.
What We Do
Friends for Justice operates through integrated pillar programmes that work together to protect children and women at every stage of vulnerability and recovery:
Access to Justice & Child Protection
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) Survivor Support
Psychosocial & Emotional Support
Education Sponsorship for Vulnerable Children
Economic Empowerment & Positive Parenting
Together, these programmes prevent abuse, protect children from violence, support recovery, stabilize families, and pursue justice through survivor-centred, community-based, and legally grounded interventions. Friends for Justice works simultaneously with children who have experienced violence and those at risk, deliberately bridging the gap between prevention and response.
Through this integrated model, we have:
- Increased early reporting and safe disclosure of abuse
- Reduced stigma and harmful norms surrounding violence
- Strengthened community vigilance and accountability
- Supported survivor healing and reintegration
- Improved access to justice and legal outcomes
- Built sustainable child protection systems embedded in communities and schools
Our work ensures that children are not only rescued after harm occurs, but are protected long after individual interventions end.
How We Protect Children
Our Interconnected Protection Pillars
Community Sensitization
Prevention at scale
We conduct targeted community sensitization in high-risk areas informed by case trends, community reports, and emerging risk indicators. Through public forums, barazas, school engagements, and dialogue sessions, we challenge harmful norms, break silence around violence, promote early reporting, and build shared responsibility for child protection. These engagements strengthen community vigilance and reduce risk before harm occurs.
Little Friends For Justice Protection Club (LFFJC)
Early prevention & Safe disclosure
Through Child Protection Clubs in schools, children are reached early in safe, trusted spaces. They learn about their rights, personal safety, peer support, and clear reporting pathways. The clubs foster early disclosure, reduce stigma, and empower children to protect themselves and their peers before violence escalates. Lessons learned extend beyond the classroom into homes, opening dialogue with caregivers and reinforcing positive parenting and nonviolent discipline.
Psychosocial Support
Healing & recovery
Violence leaves deep emotional and psychological wounds. Friends for Justice provides trauma informed psychosocial support to children and caregivers affected by abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Through counselling, group sessions, and caregiver support, we promote healing, resilience, and safe reintegration ensuring recovery accompanies protection and justice.
Education Sponsorship
Long-term recovery & stability
Education is both protective and restorative. Friends for Justice supports vulnerable children and survivors of violence to access and remain in school through tuition sponsorship, school supplies, uniforms, boarding support, mentorship, vocational training, and pathways to higher education. Education restores stability, opportunity, and hope, reducing long-term vulnerability.
Economic Empowerment & Positive Parenting
Household stability
Violence leaves deep emotional and psychological wounds. Friends for Justice provides trauma informed psychosocial support to children and caregivers affected by abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Through counselling, group sessions, and caregiver support, we promote healing, resilience, and safe reintegration ensuring recovery accompanies protection and justice.