Watch Shusma’s inspiring story to learn how your donation will help her empower thousands more vulnerable children and women with skills to keep them safe from abuse, violence, and exploitation.
As Shusma says so passionately,
“In my 25-year career of working with NGOs that support human rights and child protection, I keep seeing that, although awareness, relief services, and laws are important, they are not enough.
Vulnerable people, especially children and women, need safety, advocacy, and self-defense skills so they can protect themselves from abuse, violence, and exploitation.
Thanks to Kidpower International’s outstanding curriculum and tremendous ongoing support, we have been successful in training over 8,000 children and adults in impoverished rural municipalities in Nepal.
In every class we teach, we see right away how our participants become so much safer and more confident. Our next step is to train practitioners so we can teach safety skills to children and adults all over our country.
Please donate TODAY to help Kidpower International bring these life-saving skills to every person in need here in Nepal, in your community, and in every part of our world.”
Your donation today will be doubled through a match from our Leadership Circle! Join us in providing life-saving skills to stop bullying and abuse in your community and around the world.
Published: December 19, 2024 | Last Updated: December 19, 2024
Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Founder and Executive Director
Kidpower Founder and Executive Irene van der Zande is a master at teaching safety through stories and practices and at inspiring others to do the same. Her child protection and personal safety expertise has been featured by USA Today, CNN, Today Moms, the LA Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Publications include: cartoon-illustrated Kidpower Safety Comics and Kidpower Teaching Books curriculum; Bullying: What Adults Need to Know and Do to Keep Kids Safe; the Relationship Safety Skills Handbook for Teens and Adults; Earliest Teachable Moment: Personal Safety for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers; The Kidpower Book for Caring Adults: Personal Safety, Self-Protection, Confidence, and Advocacy for Young People, and the Amazon Best Seller Doing Right by Our Kids: Protecting Child Safety at All Levels.