With a global mission to advocate cybersex trafficking awareness of children from underserved and rural communities, as well as drive strategic partnerships in support of developing cybersecurity international standards, guidelines and best practices, Protect Us Kids Foundation serves to drive the development of innovative technologies and solutions that can be leveraged towards protecting our youth in cyberspace; specifically in ending sexual violence, exploitation and abuse against children.
Hello, young trailblazers! From every village, town, and city, this is your call to dive into the digital realm and champion online safety.
We’ve opened up availability for our next Youth Life Cohort!!
Format: Dive into a mix of virtual & hybrid sessions. While basic English is helpful, we’re pushing to offer more language soon. Volunteers for native language sessions, we need you!
Protect Us Kids Foundation is currently researching the behavioral and socioeconomic factors involved in how technology is used to support cyber-related crime against at-risk youth. The associated cyber-related tools and exploitative methods used, typically result in catastrophic consequences – many of which encourage runaways, promote human trafficking and slavery, ensnare youth in child pornography rings and lead to the prostitution, kidnapping, abduction and murder of young people. Our focus is to provide youth from underserved and rural communities, with critical life-saving tools on how to navigate cyberspace without falling victim to child predators and exploiters.
There are so many ways that you can be an advocate against online cybercrimes against children
You can help Every dollar counts towards research and development efforts in cyber safety, tools, behavioral and mental health resources and rehabilitation of child survivors of internet related sex crimes and commercial sex trafficking!
read moreYour involvement is so important Get involved! Let's empower our youth and spread awareness! We can develop the tools, technology, youth safe havens and provide the much needed resources to underserved communities around the world.
read moreSpread the Word Help us to be heard around the world as we join forces towards providing the political strength and leadership for international child protection on the internet and advocate against cyber-related crimes against children.
read moreNew technologies are facilitating the online sexual exploitation of children, including the live-streaming of sexual abuse of children using web cameras or cell phones, often for profit. Mobile devices also provide new and evolving means by which offenders sexually abuse children as apps are being used to target, recruit, and coerce children to engage in sexual activity.*
Protect Us Kids Foundation is working to establish strategic partnerships with other national and international organizations and NGOs towards addressing the online sexual exploitation of children. It is our hope, through information sharing and collaboration, that we can further our efforts towards helping youth who reside in underserved and rural communities by providing a different lens as to the behavioral and socioeconomic factors unique to this population and their susceptibility to online sexual exploitation.
*Source: 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report, U.S. Department of State, July 2017 **Video Source: Terre Des Hommes Foundation, Sweetie 2.0: Stop Webcam Child Sex
