Safeguarding Statement

Commitment Statement To Safeguarding

Our safeguarding commitment is to ensure that children and adults are protected from both deliberate and accidental harm and abuse caused by Gender Development Initiative’s staff and other representatives. 

Categories of Volunteers: All our volunteers are guided by our safeguarding statement.  We look at the opportunities the volunteers fit into for rewarding volunteering experiences.

1. Social Action volunteers: Consist of volunteers, mostly retirees and artisans who render their services free of charge to the organization, helping GenDi to carry out activities in communities under our coverage.

1. Retirees and Core Professionals

These are professionals who are retirees or in service, who enrol to volunteer their free time to helping communities under our interventions. They could be nurses, medical doctors, accountants etc. They engage in some of the following activities

• Counselling and mentoring of children and community members
• Helping ad supporting various departments such as accounting.
• Supporting rape survivors, people experiencing GBV among others

1. Young Graduates and Youth Volunteers

These categories of young people enrol on our scheme to acquire experiences and build their capacities on community engagements. Some of these categories include youth corpers, young graduates etc

1. Project Based Volunteers: Consist of volunteers who are residents within the communities within which our projects are based. They support our community interventions around sensitization, education, empowerment etc.
2. Informal volunteers: They spare their time and resources to attend to the needy in the society. They can serveby:
3. Sewing uniforms for the indigent children in rural areas
4. Sewing menstrual pad for girls
5. Sewing facial masks for health workers, frontline workers etc
6. Paying for school fees
7. Buying food for the needy
8. Helping with menial jobs.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     3. Remote volunteering: Provides an opportunity for community members anywhere they are, to volunteer from the comfort of their offices and/or home. Needs of the community and persons being served is taking into consideration while recruiting them. They assist with activities such as:

• Management of the website and social platforms
• Help mobilize funds for specific interventions.
• Providing psychosocial support and counselling for people under our intervention