Safeguarding is our responsibility to make sure that no person — especially no child, and no woman or girl already living through displacement or conflict — is harmed, exploited, or put at risk by our work, our staff, our volunteers, or anyone acting on our behalf.
Who we work with, and why this matters here
Our organizational profile describes our operational footprint in these terms:
The organization is headquartered in Nigeria and operates in various regions, with a strong presence in conflict-affected and underserved communities. Its programs extend across multiple states, focusing on initiatives that uplift women and girls, IDP and vulnerable communities through education, skill training, entrepreneurship, and advocacy.
WeCare For You International Organization, 2025 organizational profile
That work carries an unavoidable imbalance of power. A person receiving food, medicine, a hygiene kit, training, or a place in a programme is not in an equal position with the person handing it over. They may have no other option, no way to complain safely, and every reason to fear that objecting costs them the assistance they came for.
Recognising that imbalance is the whole basis of safeguarding. Assistance is never a favour, and it is never conditional on anything a person gives in return.
Our commitment
- Do no harm. Before we act, we consider whether the action could put someone at risk — including risks that are not obvious, such as who is seen receiving what, and who is left out.
- The safety of the person comes first. Ahead of the programme, ahead of the reporting deadline, and ahead of the organization's reputation.
- Everyone is accountable. These standards apply to trustees, staff, volunteers, interns, contractors, and any partner delivering work in our name. Seniority changes nothing.
- Concerns are welcome. A concern raised early is a problem prevented. We would far rather receive ten concerns that come to nothing than miss one that did not.
What is never acceptable
We have zero tolerance of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and sexual harassment, and of any other abuse of the people we serve or the people we work with. Specifically, nobody acting for this organization may:
- Exchange money, employment, goods, assistance, or a place in a programme for sex or for any sexual favour — this is prohibited absolutely, whether or not the other person appears to agree.
- Engage in sexual activity with anyone under the age of 18. A mistaken belief about someone's age is never a defence, and local custom or law does not lower this standard.
- Subject anyone to physical, verbal, emotional, or economic abuse, bullying, or intimidation.
- Discriminate on grounds of sex, age, disability, religion, ethnicity, displacement status, or anything else, in who receives assistance or how they are treated.
- Solicit or accept a payment, a gift, or a favour in return for support, selection, employment, or a contract. If anyone asks you for one, please tell us — see also the donation-fraud warning in our terms of use.
- Misuse a person's information, or share what they told us in confidence with people who have no need to know it.
Images, names, and stories
Dignity is part of safeguarding. A photograph or a story published without genuine, informed consent can expose somebody long after the programme has ended.
- We do not publish a person's name, image, or account of what happened to them without their informed consent — freely given, and freely refused with no consequence for the assistance they receive.
- We do not publish anything that could identify a child, a survivor of violence, or anyone whose safety could be affected by being recognised.
- You will find no testimonials attributed to beneficiaries anywhere on this website. That is deliberate. Our programme photographs are captioned to describe only what is visible in the frame, and are not used to imply endorsement by the people in them.
How to raise a concern
You do not need proof. You do not need to be certain. You do not need to have witnessed it yourself. If something you have seen or been told makes you uneasy, tell us and let us look into it.
Three ways to reach us:
- Email — contact@wecareforyouinternational.org. Putting “Safeguarding” in the subject line helps it get read quickly.
- Phone — +2348036492425 or +2347033502310. If speaking is safer or easier for you than writing, please call.
- In person — at our registered office, Suite No 5, Seynu A Seyne Building, Opposite FCE Yola, along Yola Road, Jimeta, Yola North, Adamawa State.
If it is safe to include them, these details help: what happened, where and roughly when, who was involved, whether anyone is still at risk, and how we can contact you. If you can only tell us part of it, tell us that part.
The contact form on this site has a “Safeguarding concern” subject and reaches the same team. It is an ordinary web form, though, so if you would rather your concern did not pass through the website at all, use the email address or the phone numbers above.
You may raise a concern anonymously. Please know that anonymity can limit what we are able to establish, because we cannot come back to you with questions.
Confidentiality
What you tell us is shared only with the people who need to know it in order to act on it, and it is kept securely. We will not publish your name, and we will not tell the person a concern is about who raised it, unless we are legally required to.
Where a concern is about a specific person, we will discuss with them what happens next and seek their consent before making any onward referral — for example to the police, to a health or protection service, or to a donor. There are two limits on that, and it is fairer to state them here than to discover them later: where a child is at risk of significant harm, and where Nigerian law requires a report, we may have to act without consent. We will say so, and we will explain why.
Personal information contained in a concern is handled as set out in our privacy policy.
No retaliation
Nobody will be penalised for raising a concern in good faith — not a member of staff, not a volunteer, and above all not a person receiving our assistance. Raising a concern will never affect the support you or your household receive.
Retaliating against someone who has spoken up is itself a serious breach of these commitments, and we treat it as one.
What we do not claim on this page
This page states our commitments and gives you real people to reach. It deliberately does not name an internal safeguarding policy document, a designated safeguarding officer, a committee, or a formal investigation procedure, because we will not publish a structure we cannot evidence to you. Telling someone that a named officer is waiting for their report, when they would then find nobody, would be a safeguarding failure in itself.
If you are a donor, partner, or auditor carrying out due diligence, ask us in writing for our current safeguarding arrangements — including the standards our staff and volunteers are held to, and how a report is handled once received — and we will respond with what is actually in place. Our governance structure and accountability commitments are published on the governance page.