Before Harm Begins
Prevention is most effective, most humane, and most cost-effective when it happens before harm — not after.
Our Objective
Families, communities, schools, and the wider public will be mobilised as active agents of prevention, with measurably increased awareness of CSEA risks and increased use of locally adapted reporting and protection mechanisms — contributing to an enabling environment that stops harm before it begins.
Mobilising the whole of society distributes protection across every setting a child encounters — the home, the classroom, the community, and increasingly, the screen.
Targeted Education
Improving awareness and help-seeking skills among children, young people, parents, and communities so risks are recognised early.
Public Awareness
Sharing clear, evidence-based information on abuse, online harms, and reporting mechanisms to reduce stigma and increase action.
Private Sector Engagement
Increasing child-safeguarding policies and staff training across travel, tourism, hospitality, and technology sectors.
Prevention Ecosystem
Strengthening community-led monitoring and coordinated referral pathways that surround children with safety and support.
What This Program Does
Offenders exploit travel, voluntourism, and new digital platforms just as fast as families can adapt. APLE meets this challenge through three connected strands of prevention work.
Child-friendly sessions on body safety, digital safety, grooming, and sextortion for students and youth; parent and caregiver workshops on recognising risk signs and safe online use; training for community leaders and local authorities to identify risks and coordinate early interventions; community-led monitoring teams that map local risks.
National and local campaigns using simple, culturally appropriate messages co-designed with children and youth. Bilingual, child-friendly information materials explaining rights and reporting channels. Evidence-based content that counters myths and encourages prompt reporting to police or APLE’s hotline — delivered in part through APLE’s Pisey Chatbot and youth-led digital initiatives.
As a member and promoter of The Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children in Travel and Tourism, APLE trains hotels, guesthouses, tour operators, and tuk-tuk drivers — closing off the settings offenders have historically exploited.
Frequently Asked Questions
It ranges from a classroom session on body safety to training a hotel’s front-desk staff to recognise warning signs — prevention meets children and adults where they already are, before a risk becomes harm.
Yes. APLE works with state schools across deep-dive provinces to deliver OCSEA preventive education. Reach out through our Work With APLE page to start a conversation.
Yes — Pisey is designed to reach children, caregivers, and communities directly with safety information and a path to support, extending prevention beyond in-person sessions.
Through pre- and post-session knowledge assessments, follow-up surveys, and tracking of increased use of reporting mechanisms in communities where we’ve worked — all reported against our public Strategic Plan targets.
Yes. APLE trains community leaders, local authorities, and protection volunteers to identify risks, conduct early interventions, and coordinate referrals.
Help Stop Harm Before It Starts
A single training session, a single conversation, can be the difference between a risk noticed and a child harmed. Join the effort upstream.