Kigumi Donates Training to Orphanage

Earlier this week, we were grateful to have the opportunity to run a second pro bono workshop for Care Corner Orphanage Foundation in Chiang Mai, this time on data privacy and digital child safeguarding for staff members.

It was the second pro bono training we’ve done for CCO, following our first one directly to students last August, during which we also tested 4 KiguLab trainings bilingually with the adolescents.

In addition to discussing sharenting, child safeguarding, digital hygiene / privacy basics and personal data management, we also had a number of great exchanges regarding the context of data privacy for an orphanage specifically, including:

🧠 The caretaking mandate of staff at the orphanage. How to apply the learnings into real-world scenarios when students have other adults role modeling digital behaviors to them (for those who still had ties to their birth families)?

👀 The cultural aspects of data privacy in a rural Thai context. What do "privacy", "sharing" and "risk" mean in contexts where social media platforms serve critical community needs / when public infrastructure is not present, like when public school teachers use Facebook as a teaching platform to assign work to students?

💻 Crafting an appropriate marketing / social media policy for CCO. Donors want to “see” the children they are donating to; how to observe digital privacy and child safeguarding in this context, when funding is on the line? (Answer: Creative videography angles - back of head, distance shots, close ups of student projects or hands doing an activity - are the simplest to implement 😊)

If you’d like to know more about Care Corner Orphanage, which has been serving the northern Thai community for nearly 2 decades, you can check out their website. To make a donation, please contact their founder, Jacinth Tan, at jacinth@carecornerorphanage.com.