Protecting children below 14 years of age from unintentional injuries such as road traffic injury, falls, fire and burns, drowning, choking and poisoning by bringing about changes in attitude, behavior, practices and the environment.
Protecting children below 14 years of age from unintentional injuries such as road traffic injury, falls, fire and burns, drowning, choking and poisoning by bringing about changes in attitude, behavior, practices and the environment.
Safe Kids Foundation (SKF) is a non profit organization dedicated to the prevention of unintentional childhood injuries, which is a leading cause of death and disability of children globally. Safe Kids Worldwide and Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust collaboratively founded Safe Kids Foundation which became a member of Safe Kids Worldwide in 2006 to improve the lives of children in India. We, at Safe Kids Foundation, are committed to develop a ‘safe environment’ enabling our children to lead healthy and vibrant lives. Safe Kids Foundation works with non-profit organizations, governments, safety advocates, professionals from various fields and schools, teachers, parents and employee volunteers to promote awareness and teach that accidental deaths and injuries are preventable and provide long term environmental improvements to make home, school zones and neighborhoods safe for children. The current program activities focus on promoting road safety in Mumbai, Delhi and Ahmedabad and home safety in Pune.
‘Safe Kids Walk This Way’ is a pedestrian safety program started by Safe Kids Worldwide and FedEx in the United States in 1999. The program has worked with more than a million students and thousands of schools in Brazil, Canada, China, Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Mexico, Vietnam, India and the United States. ‘Safe Kids Walk This Way’ was launched in Mumbai in 2007 with the support from FedEx India to address pedestrian-related injuries to children. It is a multifaceted program that works on the four pillars of Awareness, Education, Advocacy and Research. The safety task forces make environmental improvements to areas where children walk research studies are conducted to assess the various situations, behaviours, attitudes and law enforcement, all working together to promote child pedestrian safety.
Safe Kids Foundation with the support from Honeywell launched ‘Safe Kids at Home’, a home safety program, in Pune in 2015 to help prevent and reduce burns and scalds among children under 14 years of age through awareness sessions in schools, communities and among caregivers. This program is backed by an extensive research which reveals that burns and scalds are the second leading cause of injury amongst children below 14 years and are topmost in severity. ‘Safe Kids at Home’ deploys experiential and fun educational tools targeted at children to educate them on mandatory, informatory and precautionary behaviours in case of fire emergencies. The programe aspires to bring together citizens and civic bodies who can lead the way in making Pune a model ‘Safe Kids at Home’ city in India.
Our programs are supported whole-heartedly and actively by our sponsors- FedEx Express for Road Safety and Honeywell for Home Safety
FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) provides customers and businesses worldwide a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and business services. With annual revenues of $58 billion, the company offers integrated business applications through operating companies competing collectively and managed collaboratively, under the respected FedEx brand. Consistently ranked among the world’s most admired and trusted employers, FedEx inspires its more than 400,000 team members to remain “absolutely, positively” focused on safety, the highest ethical and professional standards and the needs of their customers and communities. To learn more about how FedEx connects people and possibilities around the world, please visit about.fedex.com.
Honeywell invents and manufactures technologies to address some of the world’s toughest challenges initiated by revolutionary macro trends in science, technology and society. A Fortune 100 company, Honeywell creates solutions to improve the quality of life of people around the globe by generating clean and healthy energy and using it more efficiently, enabling people around the world to connect, communicate and collaborate more productively.
All of Honeywell’s global businesses have a strong legacy in India, built over the last eight decades. Honeywell India’s commitment is evident in seven state-of-the-art manufacturing and engineering operations, and five global centres of excellence for technology development and innovation. Honeywell employs close to 15,000 people across 50 locations including Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Madurai, Pune and Vadodara. For additional information on Honeywell India, please visit http://honeywell.com/country/in/.
‘Safe Kids Walk This Way’ program works in close collaboration with
‘Safe Kids at Home’ program works in close collaboration with
