Safe Kids Foundation is unique in it's ability to communicate prevention messages directly to kids and their families through comprehensive program.
These programs, involving media events, distribution of educational material and hands-on educational activities for children and adults, aim to get communities involved in the safety of their children.
Each program is supported by one or more of our committed partners / sponsors.
Safe Kids Walk This Way program was officially launched on 3rd October, 2007. For images related to this occassion please visit the photo gallery. Classroom education and media events take place throughout the year.
Safe Kids Foundation and program sponsor FedEx created Safe Kids Walk This Way program to teach safe behaviors to motorists and child pedestrians and to create safer and more walkable communities. The goal of the initiative is preventing injury to child pedestrians.
This program brings together teachers, parents, FedEx employee volunteers and safety advocates to teach students and encourage awareness of pedestrian safety and provide long term environmental improvements to make school zone and neighborhoods safe for pedestrians.
Activity under Walk This Way:
Walk This Way presentation on school wall under innovative teaching method:
During November 2011, our partner Brihamumbai Mahapalika Shikshak Shabha (BMSS) organized to paint 80 feet school wall with 10 Walk This Way messages. Each message was unveiled and 30 students explained the messages to the audience.
Safe Kids Foundation & FedEx Express have collaborated with Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), an autonomous organization of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt. of India holding a wide network of village youth organizations, with a mandate to cover 150 million non-student rural youth and one of the largest grassroot organizations in the world. Due to the NYKS’s substantial outreach, Safe Kids Foundation decided to pilot the Safe Kids Walk This Way programme in Delhi on an experimental basis and further extend the same country-wide once the programme is successfully implemented in the capital Safe Kids Walk This Way Launch Function took place on the 29th October, 2009 at 11 am at Gandhi Smriti & Darshan Samiti, Rajghat, New Delhi.
Safe Kids Foundation has introduced Walk This Way program in Ahmedabad. The city is the largest in the state of Gujarat in India.
