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How we handle information, how we protect children, and what we are and are not. Written to be read, rather than to be scrolled past.

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What we do with your information.

Last updated 28 August 2026

Who we are. Khula Pathways is an unincorporated project working in KuGompo City, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was started by someone who grew up in KuGompo and whose father still lives there, and who now spends most of her time in the United Kingdom. For data protection purposes she is the controller. Contact: hello@khulapathways.org.

What we collect. Only what you choose to type into one of the forms on this site, and only when you send it:

  • Your name
  • Your email address, or a phone number if you give one
  • What you told us you would like to do, and any message you wrote
  • Your role, if you used the form for parents, teachers, schools or community organisations

How it reaches us. The forms do not send anything themselves. They open a message in your own email application with the details filled in, and nothing is transmitted until you press send. If you do not press send, we never receive it and it is never stored anywhere.

Why we hold it. To reply to you and to keep track of people who have offered support. Our lawful basis is legitimate interests — you contacted us and would reasonably expect a reply — and, where you have asked to be listed as a founding supporter, your consent.

How long we keep it. For as long as the conversation is live, and then for as long as it remains relevant to the programme. We review this annually. Ask us to delete your details and we will, without argument.

Who we share it with. Nobody. We do not sell, rent, trade or share your information with third parties. We do not run advertising. There is no mailing list you can be added to without asking.

Where it is stored. Mail to hello@khulapathways.org is forwarded by Cloudflare Email Routing into a mailbox hosted by Microsoft in the United Kingdom and European Union. Both act as processors on our behalf; neither is given your details for any purpose of their own.

Your rights. You can ask us for a copy of what we hold, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it, ask us to restrict what we do with it, or object to us holding it at all. Write to the address above and we will respond within one month. If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Children's information. We do not collect information about children through this website, and we ask you not to send any. The form for parents, teachers and schools says so plainly: no names, ages, schools or photographs of any child. If you send us a child's details unprompted, we will delete them and tell you we have done so.

Cookies and tracking

We don't track you.

This website sets no cookies. There is no analytics, no advertising pixel, no session tracking and no third-party script watching what you do. That is why there is no cookie banner — there is nothing to consent to.

One honest exception. The site loads its typefaces from Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to Google's servers and Google will see your IP address. We are telling you because it is true, not because anyone made us. We intend to serve the fonts from our own domain instead, which removes even that.

If you play the revision quiz on the home page, nothing about your answers or your score leaves your device. It is not recorded, not sent anywhere and not remembered.

Safeguarding

Children come before the programme.

Interim statement · full policy in development

Khula Pathways works with children. If protecting a child ever conflicts with running the programme, protecting the child wins. That is not a difficult decision and we are not going to pretend it is.

What we will not publish
No child's name, photograph, school, admission number or marks will appear on this website or in any public material. The one school report reproduced on the home page has had every identifying detail removed and is there to make a point about language, not to display a child.
What sponsors receive
Termly progress and results, and an annual statement of what their money paid for. Photographs and letters are shared only where the learner and their guardian have both asked for it, sent privately to that sponsor, and never published. A sponsor who presses for more than that is told no.
Contact between sponsors and learners
There is no direct or unsupervised contact between a sponsor and a child. Everything goes through the programme.
The people who do the work
Everyone working directly with children will be background-checked to the standard required in the country they work in, and will be South African educators for anything touching health, relationships or consent. That material belongs to people from the community, not to us.
Before delivery begins
A named safeguarding lead will be appointed, a full policy published here, and reporting routes agreed with local schools and authorities. None of the in-person curriculum starts before that is done.
Raising a concern
If you are worried about a child in connection with anything we do, write to hello@khulapathways.org with "Safeguarding" in the subject line and it will be read the same day. If a child is in immediate danger, contact the emergency services in their country first — in South Africa, the police on 10111 or Childline SA on 116.

This is an interim statement, not a finished policy. We are publishing it now because saying nothing while we work on it would be worse. It will be replaced by a full policy, written with people who do this professionally, before any child is enrolled.

Status and transparency

What we are, and what we are not.

Khula Pathways is not a registered charity in the United Kingdom, and not a registered non-profit organisation in South Africa. It is a project. Registration is intended and is the next step.

That means there is no Gift Aid, no tax relief and no charity number, and we do not solicit donations as a charity. Nothing on this site should be read as implying otherwise. If a message from anyone claiming to represent Khula Pathways tells you different, it is not from us.

Related interests. The later stages of the pathway — vocational training, first employment and management progression — are intended to run through property and hospitality businesses connected to the founder. This is deliberate: it is what makes the end of the pathway real rather than aspirational. It is also a related-party arrangement, it will be disclosed in full to every funder, and it will be governed accordingly once a board exists.

Who runs it. The founder grew up in KuGompo and her father still lives there, but she is currently based mostly in the United Kingdom. We believe a programme like this should be led and governed day to day by people who are in KuGompo every day. There is no local board yet, and building one is the next piece of work. We would rather state that than be asked.

Terms of use

The short version.

This website is published for information. We take care to keep it accurate — every statistic on it is sourced and dated — but we give no warranty that it is complete or current, and we are not liable for decisions taken solely on the basis of it.

The words, design and code are ours. You are welcome to quote or link to anything here; please do not reproduce it wholesale or present it as your own.

Where we link to another organisation's site, we are not responsible for what is on it.

Registering interest through a form on this site creates no contract and no obligation on either side. You are telling us you are interested; we are telling you we will be in touch.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales.