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Janet Aguti
Co-founder, Brave Movement and Chair, Brave Movement’s SAGE (Survivor Advocates Globally Empowered – advisory board); Founder, Totya Platform
Janet Aguti is a Ugandan social worker and life coach.
As one of the first employees of Uganda's first online emergency sex education platform and through managing a project for increased access to sexual and reproductive health in Ugandan refugee camps, Janet has extensive experience supporting youth to overcome personal challenges and traumatic experiences.
As a survivor of sexual abuse herself, she transformed her own difficult experiences into founding a social enterprise called Totya Platform, specializing in helping victims and survivors of sexual violence to access psychosocial support services via an anonymous hotline. Being the only hotline in Uganda dedicated to survivors of sexual abuse, she has supported families to find the courage to pursue justice in the long run.
Recognized by Keeping Children Safe as the 2025 Child Safeguarding Champion of the year, Janet believes that childhood should be a time of wonder, not a season of survival. For her, safety is a human right and not a privilege, which seems to be the opposite for millions of children worldwide.
Since 2018, Janet has been actively involved in the Zero Tolerance campaign by Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA) and advocating for it to be passed as a Universal Law to protect children, adolescents and vulnerable adults from all forms of clergy abuse, especially sexual abuse and cover-up. This granted her a private audience with Pope Leo, as one of only five survivors chosen to speak about a Zero Tolerance policy and what it means for the children in Uganda and Africa.
Janet is also currently serving as an advisory member of the Institute of Anthropology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, guiding conversations on language related to sexual violence, safeguarding, and the importance of survivor involvement as a valuable experience in Academia.
For Janet, her vision is a world where children are carefree and explore what childhood is without fears and burdens that are not for them to bear.
"Sexual violence against children and adolescents is a reality and people need to accept that. I strongly believe that through the Brave Movement I can speak out and be heard and believed. I see the movement as a speakerphone for my voice to be heard at its loudest speaking out against sexual violence, confident that I have the support of Brave and its allies. My hope for the future is that a child in Uganda can stand up without fear and have the strength to speak out about what is happening to them. People should be able to achieve their dreams and live free from harm."
