About TillyExtraSteps
Building a culture where every child is safe, heard, and protected
TillyExtraSteps Foundation works with schools, faith-based organisations, communities, and institutions to strengthen safeguarding systems, build professional capacity, and embed child protection into everyday practice.
Who We Are
A practical, ethical approach to safeguarding
TillyExtraSteps operates at the intersection of education, safeguarding, mental health, human rights, and institutional leadership.
The Foundation supports institutions in strengthening the systems, skills, leadership, and culture required to protect children — not only through policy, but through everyday practice.
Our approach is grounded in field realities. Where clear safeguarding structures are absent, children can be left vulnerable. Where leadership acts intentionally, institutions can become places where children are genuinely safe, heard, respected, and protected.
Children’s safety should never depend on silence, chance, or goodwill. It must be embedded through training, clear policies, safe reporting pathways, responsible leadership, and consistent accountability.
Field Experience
Institutional safeguarding practice in an international school environment
Experience in Bahrain has helped anchor the Foundation’s approach in day-to-day institutional reality — strengthening safeguarding practice, reporting culture, safe systems, and professional accountability within an international education setting.
Our Foundation
Professional expertise informed by field practice
TillyExtraSteps combines education practice, safeguarding systems strengthening, and rights-based approaches to support organisations working with children and young people.
Education & Training
Learner-centred pedagogy, educator development, professional training, and capacity building for teachers and caregivers.
Safeguarding Systems
Prevention frameworks, reporting pathways, institutional responsibilities, accountability, and safeguarding culture.
Rights-Based Practice
Child rights, human dignity, ethical safeguarding, and professional practice that prioritises children’s safety and voice.
Our work draws on recognised safeguarding standards while remaining attentive to local contexts, cultural sensitivities, and institutional capacity — particularly across Africa and the diaspora. The objective is always to build solutions that institutions can implement, sustain, evaluate, and improve over time.
Why Safeguarding Matters
From intention to action. From awareness to accountability.
Institutions may care deeply about children and still lack the systems required to protect them effectively. Good intentions must therefore be translated into professional practice.
Safeguarding is non-negotiable
Protection must be embedded into institutional culture, leadership, policy, and practice.
Teachers are first-line child protectors
The responsibility placed on educators must be matched by relevant training, tools, and clear procedures.
Mental health matters
Children’s emotional wellbeing and physical safety cannot be addressed in isolation from one another.
Institutions must lead
Sustainable safeguarding depends on systems that listen, protect, respond, document, and remain accountable.
How We Work
Collaborative, practical, and sustainable
We work with institutions where they are — strengthening capability without overwhelming teams and helping leaders translate safeguarding principles into practical day-to-day systems.
Collaborative Delivery
Working alongside institutions to co-design approaches suited to their context, culture, priorities, and operational capacity.
Practical Implementation
Providing training, tools, frameworks, and guidance that can be applied immediately and sustained over time.
Ethical Safeguarding
Promoting child-centred and rights-based practices grounded in safety, dignity, listening, and responsible reporting.
Systems Thinking
Moving beyond isolated training sessions to strengthen the people, policies, procedures, and accountability structures that allow safeguarding to endure.
Leadership
Founded and led by Mathilda Muatesih Sangha
Mathilda Muatesih Sangha is the Founder and strategic lead of TillyExtraSteps Foundation.
A trained educator, safeguarding and child protection advocate, and human rights consultant, her work is dedicated to strengthening protection systems within schools, faith-based organisations, institutions, and community spaces.
Through TillyExtraSteps Foundation, she has created a structured platform for professional training, safeguarding advocacy, institutional support, and partnership-led initiatives designed to ensure children are protected, heard, and respected.
Our Commitment
“Safeguarding children is not an option — it is a responsibility.”
Available for institutional support, strategic partnerships, professional training, consultancy, and safeguarding advocacy initiatives.
