TACEPi describes prevention, awareness, safe identification and referral coordination as elements of its protection work.

TACEPi describes prevention, awareness, safe identification and referral coordination as elements of its protection work.

Community-led learning and protection

If you are reading this, you probably know that you’d like to make a difference. But many of us are unaware of our extraordinary power to do so.

The philosopher Peter Singer’s now famous “drowning child” thought experiment gets at this disconnect between desire and action: Imagine you are walking by a pond on your way to work or school, and you see a drowning child. You can jump in and rescue the child, but you would ruin your clothes in the process. Do you save the child?

Digital skills and youth entrepreneurship

TACEPi describes prevention, awareness, safe identification and referral coordination as elements of its protection work.

We’ve now covered the desire to make a difference. Let’s discuss the second part of the equation: the foresight to think carefully about it.

While we’re used to applying rigorous analysis to decisions like where to invest, whether to buy or rent, or which brand of appliance to purchase, charitable giving often gets lumped into a vague “hope this is doing something!” bucket.

Learning, partnership and accountability

To see how this could play out, let’s return to the pond with the drowning child, and the numerous people who are just walking by. This time, though, when you jump in and take the child out, one of these passersby sees you do it. And they realize they can do it too.