Child Protection

Avella Sights actively supports best practice child protection.

We strive to ensure that children and their families are protected from harm. The term ‘child protection’ refers to preventing and responding to violence, exploitation and abuse against children. This includes commercial sexual exploitation, trafficking, child labor and harmful traditional practices. Some children are more vulnerable to harm, with children living in poverty, areas of high tourism, without parental care, and in conflict with the law placed at the highest risk. Violations of a child’s right to protection take place in every country in the world. In addition to breaching human rights, these violations are also severely under-recognized and under-reported threats to a child’s survival and development. Avella Sights recognizes that exposure to tourism has the capacity to increase the risk of harm to children, and understands its responsibility and obligation to do no harm in the places we visit.