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News You Can Use March 2012
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Dear Supporter:
With spring comes the delight of longer, warmer days and our renewed focus for keeping kids safe as the temperature rises. Did you know that even in temperatures as low as 57 degrees, an unattended child in a vehicle can be seriously hurt or die from heat stroke?
Inside our homes, it seems obvious, but sometimes we forget that when we open windows to let in fresh spring air, children can fall through them. And no matter what the season, every day in the U.S. about 165 young kids – or roughly four school busloads of children – are seen in emergency rooms after getting into medications, which are the leading cause of child poisoning today.
This month we share safety tips to help prevent injuries and deaths due to heat stroke, falls and accidental poisonings from medication. I hope you’ll check our website often to learn – or to just remember – other simple safety measures that will help children grow up safe and injury-free. And I invite you to learn more on Facebook about our lifesaving work around the world.
Happy spring!
Kate Carr
President and CEO
Safe Kids Worldwide
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Never Leave Your Child Alone in a Car
Starting in March, when the sun gets stronger, we hear report after report that a child has died of hyperthermia, also known as heat stroke, while unattended in a vehicle. These tragedies affect mostly infants and toddlers, but it can happen to children of all ages. Learn how you can help raise awareness and prevent these tragedies in your community.
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Protect Your Children from Accidental Medication Poisoning
It's National Poison Prevention Week, and medications are the predominant cause of poisonings among young children. Each year more than 60,000 children are admitted to emergency departments after getting into medications unsupervised. Safe Kids' new Medication Safety Guide provides resources to avoid this very preventable form of poisoning. Check out our Facebook page for a chance to win a Poison Center refrigerator magnet.
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National Window Safety Week: April 1-7
Keeping windows and doors open not only provides fresh air through your home, but creates a hidden danger for your little ones.
Window falls increase dramatically during the spring and summer months; however, they can be prevented. It takes supervision and a device called a window guard. Learn more about window safety.
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A World of Safety Information
Twenty countries outside of the United States make up the members of the Safe Kids Worldwide network. Health and safety experts, educators, corporations, foundations, governments and volunteers work together to protect children on six continents. Want to know more?
Like Safe Kids Worldwide on Facebook to receive news and information about child safety from around the world. |
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Safe Kids In Your Community: Local Coalition Updates
- Safe Kids Upstate (SC) took part in Ready 4 Reading's Cat in the Hat event on March 3. Over 100 volunteers manned 30 stations, each with a book-inspired activity. The Safe Kids Upstate exhibit featured a Spin Wheel game in which kids picked a word and identified the corresponding picture on a poster. Reflective zipper pulls and pencils with brain erasers were distributed to promote bike safety.
- Safe Kids Rhode Island exhibited at the Moses Brown School's second annual Health Fair on March 8. Children learned about bike safety, including how to properly fit a helmet, and had the opportunity to ride through a short bike safety course.
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Safe Kids Around The World: South Africa
Safe Kids South Africa/Childsafe is a campaign of the Child Accident Prevention Foundation of Southern Africa and a member of Safe Kids Worldwide since 2007.
Childsafe promotes optimal health and development of all children in South Africa and aims to reduce intentional and unintentional injuries of all severity through research, education, environmental change and recommendations for legislation.
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According to the World Health Organization, how many children in South Africa are poisoned by accidently ingesting paraffin oil each year?
- 500 - 600
- 1,000 - 2,000
- 15,000 - 25,000
- 40,000 - 60,000
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