Core service
Consultancy & needs assessment
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PREVENT TO PROTECT COMMUNITIES
Empowering Communities.
Protecting Futures.
We help schools, NGOs, and community organisations prevent harm through risk assessments, safeguarding policies, professional capacity building, and community awareness.
Safeguarding for institutions & communities.Discover PPC
Our core services
How we help you
build safer environments.
Our intervention and approach are fully tailored based on the needs of schools, NGOs, community centers, religious institutions, childcare entities, etc.
ABOUT PPC
Protection that starts with prevention.
Founded in 2025Non-Profit Reg. No. 1173Lebanon & the wider region
Prevent to Protect Communities is a specialized safeguarding organization dedicated to strengthening protection systems for children and vulnerable populations across schools, entities, and community environments.
Founded in 2025 by qualified social workers, educators, and safeguarding specialists, the organization translates evidence-based practices into effective field interventions, ensuring that every individual, especially the most vulnerable, lives in safety, dignity, and justice.
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Our work fills a critical regional gap. Despite frequent reports of violence, abuse, and systems failures, few organizations offer a comprehensive model that combines consultancy, policy development, professional training, and advocacy under one unified safeguarding framework. Prevent to Protect Communities bridges this gap by empowering entities, professionals, and communities to prevent harm before it occurs.
We seek strategic partnerships and funding support to expand our services, enhance institutional safeguarding systems, and build sustainable protection structures that serve thousands of children and families across Lebanon and the wider region.
Prevent to Protect Communities was founded to transform research and practical experience into evidence-based solutions that safeguard children and vulnerable groups.
OUR VISION
A society where every individual lives free from harm, supported by just, inclusive, and resilient systems that uphold safety, dignity, and human rights.
OUR MISSION
To strengthen safeguarding systems across the society by providing evidence-based assessment, training and awareness, and policy development that prevent harm and empower organizations to respond ethically, effectively, and compassionately.
WHO WE PROTECT
Protection policies framework
Protecting children, older people, women, and persons with disabilities.
OUR COMMITMENT
Building systems that prevent harm, respond with empathy, and empower communities to champion justice and dignity.
OUR APPROACH
Why our work matters
Across the region, cases of violence, neglect, and exploitation continue to arise in spaces where safety should be guaranteed. Field reports and partner organizations highlight persistent gaps in:
- Child protection systems in schools and nurseries
- Safety protocols in recreational and learning environments
- Institutional case-management procedures
- Staff training and policy implementation
- Public awareness and reporting mechanisms
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Numerous incidents, including sexual harassment, bullying, physical violence, and neglect, demonstrate that protective systems remain fragmented, inconsistently applied, or completely neglected.
Prevent to Protect Communities responds to this urgent need by transforming safeguarding from a reactive process into a proactive, prevention-driven model rooted in international best practices, trauma-informed approaches, and the professional ethics of social work.
Why partner with us?
Highly specialized expertise
Our founders bring advanced qualifications alongside extensive national and international field experience in child protection, judicial systems, crisis intervention, community education, safeguarding, and social policy development.
Evidence-based practice
Interventions are strictly grounded in international safeguarding standards, social work ethics, and research-driven methodologies.
Local knowledge & cultural competence
Our founders bring in-depth experience working with children, families, persons with disabilities, elderly people, survivors of violence, refugees, minors-inmates, and vulnerable groups across Lebanon and the region.
Sustainable system building
We move beyond short-term interventions to drive systemic reform, strengthening organizational resilience, embedding safeguarding standards, and human dignity.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND PPC
Our leadership
Our leadership brings together social work, education, child protection, policy, and community development.
Khouloud Abou Rjeily
Social policy & institutional safeguarding
Protection policyAbuse case managementInstitutional safeguarding
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Khouloud is a senior social work professional at the Ministry of Social Affairs, with extensive expertise in child protection, abuse case management, national policy development, and safeguarding training.
She contributed to developing the Unified Child Protection Policy for NGOs and provides safeguarding support to multiple institutions through her work with Catholic Relief Services (CRS).
Joëlle Chamoun
Education, safeguarding & social empowerment
Psychological educationSafeguarding & inclusionSocial empowerment
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Joëlle is a PhD candidate in Psychological Education & Counseling and an award-winning educator. Her background includes more than 12 years in clinical social work education and over 20 years of professional practice across Lebanon and the UAE.
Her expertise encompasses mental health, safeguarding, inclusion, community development, and social empowerment.
Marlene Tebcherani
Social intervention & gender-based violence
Gender-based violenceJuvenile justiceSocial intervention
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Marlene is a social work expert with 15 years of experience. Her professional roles have included Juvenile Delegate at the Juvenile Court and Social Expert at the Catholic Spiritual Court.
A feminist activist with KAFA, she specialises in gender-based violence, judicial procedures, and social intervention.
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How to support us?
We welcome donors, institutions, and individuals to advance our mission and vision through: