OUR STORY

DYP was born off both lived experience and the passion to make systems change within a broken system.

DYP was established in 2019 by our founder Samantha Browne, Samantha has a very strong will to stop people from being exploited and to give young and vulnerable people  tools they need to succeed in life with the right mental wellbeing and tools they need to protect them from predators, both on and offline. With years of activism behind her belt since working for the biggest human rights organisation in the world Samantha started to realise how to make change, not just by speaking but by action.

Samantha is lucky to be part of the 1% in the world who survived human trafficking, she was subjected to many things before her life took a turn for the better, she has lived experience through exploitation from a young age after she was groomed from the age of 16, she unfortunately had to face many things from the man who trafficked her from  2009-2012 and was subjected to acts of SRA, abuse and torture. Samantha has experienced a life she wishes no person would have to go through, especially the life of a young person and that's why DYP was born.

After working for amnesty international and working with the authorities to get her perpetrator put in jail she knew that she had too much experience to not prevent this from happening to others, she went back to training and worked alongside many organisations preventing exploitation to ensure not only was there lived experience but the right training around areas such as mental health and safeguarding.

Diamond You Projects has now been able to make an impact all across the UK and in 2023 joined forces with a charity called Project Rescue Children to expand the impact worldwide. We as an organisation have been able to work with some of the organisations and charities out there making a real big impact from Aspire boxing youth club to NCS and Sheffield Council. 

We aim as an organisation to be part of making a difference within communities, protecting the most vulnerable in this world and making sure that people who are in the field of protecting children are also equipped with everything they need so we can STOP PREDATORS from abusing the system and abusing others.

Our workshops have been favoured by both professionals and young people, our mentorship programmes have proven successful with requests of returning and now our work has made partnership to work alongside organisations to change the law within the UK and organisations to build schools and deliver our workshops of preventing exploitation internationally.

We have a saying here at DYP and that's prevention before early intervention and that's early intervention. We believe that we can stop things before they happen and with the right knowledge and awareness predators do not stand a stand.