Donors see totals
Supporters see aggregates only. Never a child’s name, a linked face or a learning record.
Faces stay at the Lantern
Face data and camera footage never leave the Lantern. Footage is overwritten after 72 hours.
Consent for every image
No child’s image is published without written parental consent. Consent can be withdrawn, and the image comes down within 7 days.
Deleted on request
A family can ask us to delete their child’s data. We do it within 30 days.
Village, never closer
We never give a child’s location more precisely than the village.
Filtering always on
The children’s browsing and the public Wi-Fi are filtered at all times, with no local override.
Checked adults
Every staff member is checked, trained and signs a code of conduct. Facilitators are police-checked and serve a 90-day probation.
The home is private
No child enters the facilitator’s home above the classroom.
Free to every child
Regardless of family, religion, gender, disability or schooling.
Safe for children. Straight with donors.
How we protect children and their data, how your gift is used, and what we will publish next. We set it out now, while Lantern 1 is under construction, so you can hold us to it.
These policies are drafts. They are being formalised for adoption by the board, and this page will say when they are adopted.
EnclosedSafeguardingChild dataUse of funds
CareVLDraftWhat we promise every child.
The most important protections are built into the Lantern itself, not left to good intentions: faces never leave the building, filtering cannot be switched off, and donors only ever see totals.
For now, our Safeguarding Lead is the founder.
Move the light across the page to find its watermark.
Finding talent, without exposing a child.
The talent layer is how we notice the children who are flying, so scholarships can find them. That only works if families can trust what happens to the record.
- Each child signs in with their face and an optional PIN. No email address, no username.
- Mastery is recorded objective by objective, so we can see who is flying. Those records stay inside the programme.
- The tutor’s conversations are deleted after 30 days.
- Our data standard is the strictest of the data laws in the four countries we plan to work in.
Learner recordPrivate to the programme
- Maths6 of 6 objectives
- English4 of 6 objectives
- Coding5 of 6 objectives
Supporter reportWhat a donor sees
- Children enrolled, in total
- The share who are girls
- Objectives mastered, on average
- Hours the Lantern was open
Totals and shares. No names, no faces, no records.
Your gift goes where you send it.
Every planned Lantern has its own estimated target, built from the same lines. Choose one to see how its target is made up.
Pay toLantern 2, Nigeria · Village to be confirmed
- Build and setup, including a 10% contingency
- $67,122
- Three years of running costs, about $5,563 a year
- $16,690
- Three-year need
- $83,812
Estimated target, with 15% overhead$100,000
Raised so far Being confirmed
Help light Lantern 2Counterfoil
Restricted to Lantern 2. It stays with this Lantern, and the Lantern is built only once it is fully funded.
Showing Lantern 2, Nigeria: estimated target $100,000, raised so far being confirmed.
Planning estimates in US dollars, not quotes or spending. Targets add 15% overhead to the three-year need, rounded up.
Restricted means restricted
A gift for a Lantern stays with that Lantern. It is never folded into general reserves.
15% overhead, stated up front
Each target includes 15% overhead, on top of the build and three years of running costs.
Built only when fully funded
We do not start a Lantern we cannot finish and run for three years.
Card details never touch our site
Online gifts go through Stripe’s hosted checkout, so your card details are never handled by us.
Published here when it’s real.
Registration details, board members and adopted policies will appear on this page as each one is in place, and not before.
- Status: To be published, When complete.
Registrations
Registration details, as each one is complete.
- Status: To be published, By name.
Board members
Who sits on the board, by name.
- Status: Draft, Being formalised.
Adopted policies
The safeguarding, data and money policies on this page, once the board adopts them.
A question, or a concern about a child?
Write to us. Questions about safeguarding, data or money are all welcome, and a concern about a child comes first.
hello@villagelantern.orgEvery gift, accounted for.
A gift for a Lantern stays with that Lantern, and it is built only once fully funded. Choose one, or talk to us about funding a whole Lantern.