The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is a non-profit child protection organisation working globally to stop the spread of online child sexual abuse imagery. Every day, our specialist analysts search for and respond to reports of images and videos showing the sexual abuse of children, working with the tech industry, law enforcement and governments worldwide to have criminal content removed and blocked. While we use advanced technology to help locate this material, every image is assessed by trained human experts, supported by gold-standard welfare and wellbeing care. Our work exists to stop the ongoing harm caused when abuse imagery is viewed or shared, and to help create a safer internet for children.
Choosing to fundraise for the Internet Watch Foundation is a way to take practical action against a growing online harm. Funds raised support specialist teams who work every day to disrupt the sharing of child sexual abuse imagery, strengthen protections across the internet, and support those doing this difficult work. Whilst the harm our criminal imagery-viewing staff are exposed to in carrying out this work pales in comparison with the mental damage done to the children in that material, each member of staff who views images or videos of child sexual abuse is confronting that trauma on behalf of the rest of us in society, who care deeply about protection of children in an increasingly digitalised world. By fundraising for the IWF, supporters help turn determination into measurable change and play a direct role in keeping children safer online.
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