I've been planning to trek Kilimanjaro for some time now and thought that it would be an excellent opportunity to support a cause I deeply believe in, particularly as it relates to my current career aspirations.

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is a non-profit child protection organisation working globally to eliminate online child sexual abuse.

Internet Watch Foundation's work is hugely important, and that is why I have decided to trek Kilimanjaro on 11th June 2025 to raise vital funds and awareness to combat online child sexual abuse.

In 2023, IWF assessed a webpage every one-and-a-half minutes. Every two minutes, that webpage showed a child being sexually abused.

IWF analysts assessed 392,665 reports of suspected online child sexual abuse. Of these, 275,652 reports were confirmed to contain child sexual abuse imagery. Each report could include one or hundreds of images and videos. 

IWF has provided some compelling statistics on how your fundraising can make a difference:

£20 could support us to add web pages to our blocking list. This prevents children and adults from accidentally stumbling onto child sexual abuse photos and videos online.

£100 could support the IWF to issue several ‘Takedown Notices’ to companies hosting child sexual abuse imagery preventing repeat victimisation every time images of their abuse are viewed or shared online.

£250 as part of the IWF’s duty of care and well-being programme, two of the Hotline analysts could receive counselling sessions to help them cope with the distressing nature of their work.

£1000 could provide our analysts with some basic hardware technology needed to carry out their daily tasks of removing images of child sexual abuse.

I am hugely grateful for any donation to help IWF’s vision to create an Internet free from child sexual abuse.