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Safeguard children
School outreach, child rights education, mentorship, prevention, and support for at-risk children.
Protecting dignity, preventing harm
A community initiative for child safety, senior welfare, and human rights support.
Child protection
Senior welfare
Human rights
Mission
Protection systems for people too often left unseen
Our mission is to improve quality of life for vulnerable children, senior citizens, and marginalized populations through advocacy, protection, education, empowerment, research, and community-based interventions.
Our vision is a society where children are protected, older persons are valued and supported, and the rights and dignity of all people are respected and upheld.
Core Programmes
Three pillars, one protection ecosystem
Programmes are designed to work together, moving from prevention and care to advocacy and system change.
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Support older persons
Welfare support, health awareness, companionship, inclusion, and intergenerational connection.
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Advance human rights
Rights education, domestic violence advocacy, legal awareness, research, and accountability.
Early action changes outcomes
Prevention, referral, and community response reduce harm before crisis deepens.
Protection Model
A prevention-first protection model
Shielded Lives combines awareness, referral pathways, documentation, and partner engagement so vulnerable people are not left to navigate risk alone.
Impact Model
Global standards, rooted in community
Shielded Lives begins with community-led implementation while building the systems, evidence, and partnerships needed to scale across regions.
Child protection, senior welfare, and human rights advocacy working as one protection ecosystem.
Support shaped around people most exposed to neglect, abuse, exclusion, and poverty.
Prevention, education, response, empowerment, research, and advocacy connected end to end.
Local implementation with a framework ready for regional and international collaboration.
Strategic Approach
A clear operating method
Every intervention is built to listen first, prevent early, connect support, and strengthen systems.
Listen
Understand the risks, needs, and lived realities within each community.
Prevent
Use outreach, education, and early engagement to reduce harm before it escalates.
Connect
Link people to information, trusted partners, and responsive community networks.
Strengthen
Use documentation, research, and partnerships to improve protection systems over time.
Who We Serve
Designed for people most exposed to harm
The initiative focuses on groups whose safety, dignity, and rights are often overlooked by formal systems.
Get Involved
Partnerships that move protection forward
Support can begin as funding, skilled service, field access, institutional partnership, or advocacy.
Give
Fund outreach, field materials, welfare support, and community education.
Serve
Offer mentorship, professional skills, coordination, research, or programme support.
Connect
Introduce funders, institutions, community leaders, health workers, and protection partners.
Contact
Build with us
Start a conversation about partnership, support, volunteering, or programme collaboration.
+234 803 755 5414
shieldedlivesinitiative@gmail.com
Human Rights House, No. 69 Saptex Road, Yenezue-Epie, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.