It looked like an ordinary normal working day, on Tuesday, 21 February 2012 when suddenly around 10 hours a group of about 125 girls with their guardians flocked into Response Network (RN) premises! They were coming from a community school called Nakatindi. The girls’ mission was to collect shoes, school fees, bags and books for first term. While on the other hand, the parents were coming to sign agreement forms binding them to protect the girls from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in their care. (Article 19 of CRC),and also to ensure protection of the child from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s education, or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development. (Article 32 of CRC). The guardians were grateful at being given education on the rights of children which they didn’t know before then. They promised RN that they were going to safeguard these rights.  “I am going to have a peaceful sleep tonight – knowing that my child is going to school tomorrow”, was an expression from one of the guardians of a grade 10 child who had been unable to go to school for one year!  It was all smiles on the girls’ faces as they left RN premises around 16:00 hours loaded with all the school requirements! Thanks to Academic Work for the extra support!