Soar Print has been a Safekids supporter for several years now. They get our not-for-profit package, which includes a generous discount and a pro bono allowance. Recently we helped them with a stand-out safety project.
In case you don’t know, Safekids Aotearoa was established in the early 1990s by Starship Children’s Health Trauma Service to help reduce the high rates of preventable injury to children. Every year they run a campaign focused on some aspect of child accident prevention, such as driveway run overs or getting parents to use the right car seats for their kids.
The latest Safekids production is an interactive safety exhibit called the ‘Safekids Safety Whare’. It’s made to look like a real house, but with digital , interactive and artistic activities that teach families about overcoming risks at home. The whare focuses on prevention of burns, button battery ingestion, cutting and piercing injuries, drowning, poisoning and driveway accidents.
Soar helped with the campaign by printing the resources that are used with the whare.
The Safekids Safety Whare will go on a roadshow in 2017, visiting 10 regions around New Zealand as part of Safekids’ three-year home safety programme, in partnership with ACC.
Did you know?
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Every year, 48 Kiwi children are killed by an accident that happened at home
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Every month 231 are hospitalised from injuries in the home.
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20 children are taken to Starship each year after swallowing button batteries
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Children need to stay in a car seat or booster seat until they reach 148cm in height
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81% of child poisonings occur at home
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More than 550 kids are hospitalised every year for a serious cut or puncture injury
More about Safekids Safety Whare
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Safekids’ director Ann Weaver with the Safekids Safety Whare.
