Safe Environments

Name: Kilimanjaro International School
Address: Venecia 900, Cumbres 5o. Sector Secc D, Monterrey, Nuevo León, 64610, MX
Telephone: (818) 310-0148

Our commitment

We recognize the great responsibility we have to protect the integrity and dignity of each of our students.

Everyone at the school is committed to using every means to ensure healthy and safe environments where the dignity of every person is respected and promoted, especially that of each of the minors who study at our school.

Today more than ever, we know that abuse of any kind causes deep pain and harms the person who has suffered it, their family and society as a whole. This awareness has led us not only to have a Policy on the matter, but to ensure that every staff member, without exception, knows it, understands it and lives it at all times.

Our Safe Environments Policy includes principles, rules and procedures to guarantee a safe environment and thereby prevent any situation of abuse. The Policy has three sections:

The Policy has three sections

Code of conduct

For everyone who interacts with minors, with the aim of safeguarding the physical, sexual, psychological and social integrity of every child at the school.

Reporting and response procedure

A clear procedure to follow for reporting and addressing any breach of the established code of conduct.

Implementation and verification guide

So that the Policy is lived out and the suitability of staff to work with minors is reviewed.

All school staff are properly trained in the Policy, which means they understand the seriousness of abuse, actively work to prevent situations that could put students at risk and, if there is any report of abuse or breach of the code of conduct, know how to act with clear procedures that seek first to stop it and then to proceed as required by the country's laws.

Each school has a designated Safe Environments Officer who is primarily responsible for ensuring that staff are properly trained and that the Policy is correctly applied. To carry out this role, the officer receives ongoing training and supervision.

Prevention involves all of us. If you have any concern or message regarding Safe Environments at our school, we invite you to contact us.

Principles

Safe Environments Principles

Commitment to protect

We emphasize our commitment to protecting each of our students by providing them with a healthy and safe environment.

Recognizing the harm of abuse

We recognize that child sexual abuse causes deep harm to the person who suffers it, to their family and to society as a whole, and that no one should ever experience it.

Condemnation of abuse and cover-up

We condemn any kind of abuse, regardless of who commits it, and emphatically reject any cover-up.

Safe Environments Policy

We have a Safe Environments Policy that sets out principles, rules and procedures to achieve a safe environment.

A culture of prevention

We make sure that both our facilities and the school's daily practices foster a culture of prevention.

Staff selection

We select staff under strict hiring policies focused on determining each candidate's suitability to work with minors.

Code of Conduct

We act under a Code of Conduct that guides how adults must treat and behave with minors, and we make sure all employees, priests and consecrated staff sign it as a sign of their commitment.

Commitment to the Code of Conduct

We act under a code of conduct that guides how adults must treat and behave with minors, and we make sure all employees, priests and consecrated staff sign it as a sign of their commitment.

Reporting procedures

We have clear procedures, known to the whole community, for reporting any breach of the code of conduct and/or suspected abuse.

Reporting to the authorities

We recognize that child sexual abuse is a serious crime, and we take responsibility for reporting any suspected abuse to the competent civil authorities.