Get involved and help us protect children

Every three minutes our analysts find a photo or video online of a child suffering sexual abuse. By supporting our team, you're making a real difference to victims of child sexual abuse.

Each and every day, our team work tirelessly to remove images and videos showing the sexual abuse of children from the global internet. 

These children might be babies; they might be teenagers. They may have been raped; they may have been groomed for months; their abuse may even have been 'ordered' online. The depravity of the criminals who make and view these tragic images is beyond belief.

Each child is a real victim. They may be different ages, come from different countries, have different skin colours, or languages, but their suffering is the same.

Every time the record of abuse is shared online, every time someone views the trauma, these children are abused again. The abuse is perpetual. To a child or young person, it must feel never-ending.

That’s why we do what we do. We stop, remove and prevent child sexual abuse online.

As part of our job we help children like Zara, by removing the online record of their abuse. In 2020 alone, we destroyed over 153,000 webpages each containing hundreds, even thousands of abusive images of children. 

Nearly one third of the images were of children under ten. Sadly, the younger the child, the more severe the abuse appeared to be. 

Our mission to stop child sexual abuse online is funded by people like you.

Join our IWF heroes, extraordinary people who care about children. They bungee, skydive, run, cycle, quiz or make tea to donate and make our work possible.

People from the tech community, funders, mums, dads, carers, grandparents, brothers and sisters all support the IWF. They donate because every penny counts. They donate because if you care about the safety of children online, we’re in this fight together.

As a registered charity, every penny donated goes towards our vital work and making sure our analysts can stop, remove and prevent images of child sexual abuse on the internet. Why not make a donation today? 

*Names have been changed to protect the victim's identity.