User Agreement
Education Saves Lives – Equipping vulnerable communities with simple lessons for safer living.
We provide health promotion resources to communities that do not otherwise have access, with interactive lessons, in local languages, delivered on and offline. Education Saves Lives is committed to making its educational materials accessible and inclusive for all communities, regardless of language, literacy level, gender, or ability.
Use of our lessons
We will ask you to complete an application form to explain where and how you will use the Education Saves Lives lessons. We will provide a limited number of lessons free of charge to start with, and we will consider further requests for free lessons if needed, where you can demonstrate that the lessons make a difference.
To show the lessons you will need access to a suitable computer, laptop, or DVD player – a projector is helpful if you have a big group. We cannot provide equipment or money to buy equipment, transport, or any other resources.
We request you complete our online forms to help you report back on the use the lessons in your projects. Your feedback helps more organisations and more people because it enables us to develop and fund more lessons.
The lessons should be considered as a gift or grant from us to you. We recommend that you use them as part of your existing projects or activities instead of setting up something new. When you talk about or show the lessons you should talk about your project using the lessons. This means that you may say that you received the lessons as a gift from us, but you should not say it is an Education Saves Lives project or put our name or logo on banners, or t-shirts, you may not say that you are representing us in your country. Please ask us if you have questions about this.
The lessons are published under a creative commons licence (CC-BY-NC-ND). This means that you can make your own copies if you need more for your community, but they may not be adapted or changed, they may only be used for educational purposes. You may not sell copies of the lessons or USBs, and you may not make people pay to watch them. Our lessons must not be used in any context that promotes discrimination or exclusion.
The information in the lessons is checked by subject matter experts against the advice of WHO and other bodies where appropriate; Education Saves Lives and its collaborators are not responsible for any issues that may arise from the misuse of the lessons.
Please help us in return.
Your feedback is really important to help us develop and fund the production of the lessons.
We will provide you with feedback tools, but any pictures, stories and information you can share with us at any time will be gratefully received and we will assume that there has been informed consent given and that you grant Education Saves Lives a royalty-free right to use this content for reporting or promotional purposes. We may share your feedback on our website and in other communications.
If you are able to help with translating or narrating more lessons in your own language please contact us.
Looking after your community:
Free access to lessons
Our lessons should always be available without charge to the end user; the DVDs or USBs may not be re-sold, and no-one should be made to pay, in any way, to view them.
The right to feel safe
All of your organisation’s staff, volunteers and beneficiaries have the right to feel safe, and specifically safe from exploitation or abuse. (see “Taking Care and Keeping Safe” or “Human Trafficking” lesson for more information) . You can support this through the use of local checks on your staff and volunteers (DBS check in the UK). As a guide, if your beneficiaries do not feel safe with staff or volunteers, or if you hear concerns from other sources, then those staff or volunteers should not be used in that role.
When people don’t feel safe
People may respond to our lessons by sharing their own concerns, if the content of the lesson has affected them.
If there are concerns of a medical nature, they should be referred to local health services.
If they are about personal safety of themselves or others, they should be able to raise them with your organisation’s leaders, or with local authorities, in confidence, without fear of prejudice or repercussions. They should be listened to, treated with respect, their concerns responded to appropriately for the country where your organisation is working and if any criminal activity has taken place it should be dealt with in the most appropriate way in line with local law.
This applies equally to staff and volunteers as well as beneficiaries.
Human Trafficking
Any suspected incidents of human trafficking should be reported to the police and there is also help available from the International Organisation for Migration. Local telephone numbers for this organisation are included in our “Human Trafficking” lesson and are also available from the website www.iom.int
Reporting incidents
Any incidents or concerns about trafficking or safeguarding should also be shared with the Education Saves Lives team as soon as reasonably possible, reporting the date, a summary of the concerns and what action was taken (a form is available). This will enable us to fulfil its own safeguarding obligations and the requirements of its donors, and advice can be offered if it is needed.
