Follow our socials - Level: EASY
Own a store? Post a poster - Level: EASY
Join our awareness campaign and put up a poster now in your business. Take a picture of our poster up in your business and send it to us or tag us on socials and we will gladly add your name to our growing list of community partners!
Download, PRINT and Post in your business: the COLOUR version of the poster
Download, PRINT and Post in your business: the BLACK AND WHITE version of the poster
See if any businesses in your local area want to protect kids online HERE
Petition support - Level: MEDIUM
Social media literacy in all schools - OPEN FOR SIGNATURES!
Our next petition (Jan 29/22): We’ve kicked off our latest petition and it can be signed digitally from anywhere in the world here on our website. It seeks to make it mandatory for social media literacy classes in ALL elementary schools, everywhere! We need to prepare our kids for the future of being online and all of the risks involved – Join us – SIGN THE PETITION HERE. We will be serving a hard copy version of this petition on all provincial and state jurisdictions across North America soon and we need sponsors in each province/state. Want to help out? Email us now: info@helpusdefend.com
Age/ID verification on ALL social media - NOW CLOSED in Canada
Our first online petition (Aug 2020): garnered more than 10,000 digital signatures from around the world. We are looking for mandatory age/identity verification on all social media. Should adults have the ability to access children on social media? Do kids and other vulnerable persons have the right to be safe online? Our hard copy (paper) petition was circulated in several cities in Canada and in a little more than 24 hours of total campaign time, we ended the petition with a little less than 1000 physical signatures! Unfortunately only 748 were verified (by Canada’s House of Commons) although it has been presented to government by MP Arnold Viersen. We are waiting for a response from the Canadian federal government currently.
UPDATE – Feb 2024: The Canadian Government has introduced the Online Harms Bill (C-63) and while it does nothing to impose meaningful verification on tech companies or its users, it does suggest social media companies may have to make design changes to protect kids better on their platforms. The proposed legislation attempts to add on existing criminal sanctions to bad actors and creates a new body called the Digital Safety Commission, which will oversee certain complaints about social platforms and may attempt to enforce certain compliance rules. See more HERE
10-hour Ink-a-Thon
On May 8 2021, we started a 10-hour marathon thanking all of the 10,000+ people who signed our petition. Watch it now, below.
Donate regularly - Level: HARD
Pay yearly to become an Organization Member. Organization Members get special benefits and can have a greater impact in reducing risks for children and vulnerable people online. LEARN MORE NOW!
Plan / get involved in DEFEND Events - MEDIUM
What’s happening with DEFEND? Want to explore an interesting talk? See our fundraising endeavours: Here
Letter-writing - Level: EASY
We are letter-writing to big businesses like Match Group Inc. and others in an attempt to change policies and to protect children and vulnerable persons now. See who’s on the list. Take action now to encourage positive change!
Volunteer! Join our Team - Level: MEDIUM
Volunteer in your area NOW to start taking proactive steps in your community to help protect children in small bite-sized ways. We are team-based and virtual. We have 160+ team members on 24+ teams from 20+ countries who meet weekly to get things done.
