Every kid deserves a safe walk to school.

Too often, getting to and from school is a dangerous journey for our kids, especially in areas where there are no sidewalks or paths, and where walkers share the roadways with motor vehicles.

The problem is global; road traffic accidents are a leading cause of death for school-age children around the world.

The United Nations declared a Decade of Action for Road Safety, 2011-2020, to reduce deaths and injuries that occur on the road. In support of this global initiative, Safe Kids Worldwide, through the generous support of FedEx, is undertaking a pilot project to create safe zones around schools so kids can walk to school in safer environments.

The project works toward four types of change in each school zone. Learn more.

	Environment
	Knowledge
	Policy and Enforcement
	Behavior

Each project works in three phases. Learn more.

	Phase I: Assessment
	Phase II: Interventions
	Phase III: Evaluation

Safe Kids Worldwide is working with ten schools, one each in ten different countries, to develop safer school zones, and in doing so, create evidence-based interventions to increase child pedestrian safety that could serve as models for other schools around the world.

Over the next year, we will follow the journey taken by communities in Brazil, Canada, China, India, Korea, Mexico, Philippines, Thailand, United States and Vietnam and watch the transformation of the selected schools.