Stay Safe Online

🛡️ Your secret identity

Online, keep your real name, home, school and phone number private from strangers. Use a nickname/username. Only share real details with grown-ups you trust in real life.

🔑 Strong passwords

A password is the key to your account. Make it long and hard to guess, like a short silly sentence. Keep it secret — even from friends. Usimpe mtu password yako.

🎣 Spot the tricks

If someone online offers free airtime, free data, or a prize for your password or an M-Pesa PIN, it is a scam. Real companies never ask for your PIN or password. If it's too good to be true, ni uwongo.

🙅 Strangers online

If a stranger wants to chat privately, asks for photos, wants to meet, or makes you feel weird or scared — stop, don't reply, and tell a trusted grown-up. It is never your fault.

⚖️ Balance your time

Screens are useful but too much tires your eyes, spoils sleep and steals time for friends, sport and family. Agree your screen time with a grown-up. You control the screen, not the other way round.

Key points

• This is the most important lesson: staying safe online.
• Keep your real name, home and school private from strangers.
• Make your password long and secret. Usimpe mtu password yako!
• Free airtime or a prize for your PIN or password? Ni scam. Walk away.
• If a stranger makes you feel weird, don't reply. Tell a grown-up.
• Too much screen time tires your eyes and steals your time.
• Agree your screen time with a grown-up. You are the boss, si simu.

Try it for real: Safety promise

• With a grown-up, make one strong password and agree where to keep it safe.
• Write down one thing you will never share with strangers online.
• Agree your daily screen time and write it somewhere you both see.