Safe Parks are areas set aside for the supervised recreational or educational pursuits of children living in poor communities. Safe Parks are important spaces for reinforcing programmes such as Isibindi’s core home-visitation component or Isibindi Ezikoleni’s school-based component and for delivering special programmes and initiatives to children supported by child and youth care workers (CYCWs).

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Safe Parks are either formal or informal. A formal park is fenced and contains structured play equipment managed by an existing NACCW project. An informal park is set up in a public space by CYCWs, contains toys kept in the community, and ‘fenced’ using emergency tape, string or other improvisations. Since its inception in early 2000, NACCW established over 100 formal and more than 500 informal Safe Parks across the country, reaching nearly 100,000 children and youth.