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About International Walk to School Day - Worldwide Program

Millions of children from countries around the world are planning to walk to school this October for International Walk to School Month and other pedestrian safety initiatives.

International Walk to School Month takes place every October to raise community and global awareness about children’s environmental safety and promote healthy behaviors.

Safe Kids Walk This Way and FedEx have teamed together to teach children about traffic safety, promote safe routes to school, practice modeling healthy behaviors and raise awareness for changes to be implemented for children’s safety in the built environment.

International Walk to School Day Around the World 2008

When:

Sept. 18-25, 2008

Where:

São Paulo

What:

Events include the exhibit of PHOTOVOICE: Children’s Perspectives on Road Traffic Safety at Sacolão das Artes, two safety walks in M'Boi Mirim, two safety walks in Capão Redondo and one in Campo Limpo. In addition, there will be one morning of educational activities in a square of Campo Limpo.

More than 2,000 students, parents, teachers and FedEx volunteers in the city of São Paulo are expected to participate in National Road Safety Week events during that week.

When:

Sept. 29-Nov.3, 2008

Where:

Canada

What:

Safe Kids Canada is launching “Canada’s Favorite Crossing Guard Contest” in late September. The contest will run from Sept. 29-Nov.3, 2008

Students, teachers and parents across Canada are invited to nominate their favorite crossing guard.

Starting September 29, contest information and nomination forms are available on Safe Kids Canada’s
Web site at www.safekidscanada.ca.

Winners will be announced on Nov. 17, 2008.

When:

Sept. 8-Oct. 31, 2008

Where:

Beijing and Shanghai

What:

PHOTOVOICE: Children’s Perspectives on Road Traffic Safety will exhibit in seven communities in Shanghai during September and October, reaching more than 7,000 kids. A seminar will be launched in Beijing at the end of October.

Starting Sept. 19, winners of the photojournalism project in Beijing and Shanghai will be announced at Safe Kids China Web site at www.safekidschina.org/wtw/photojournalism.

When:

Oct. 8-31, 2008

Where:

Cebu, Manila, Olongapo, Pasay, Paranaque and Quezon

What:

PHOTOVOICE: Children’s Perspectives on Road Traffic Safety will travel to community centers in Cebu, Manila, Olongapo, Pasay, Paranaque and Quezon. The exhibit will be launched at the National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Manila.

There will be a program with speakers from the rector of the shrine, Department of Education in Paranaque, Safe Kids Philippines, and FedEx.

Children from three schools in Pasay City and three schools in Paranaque City will walk from their schools to the shrine to listen to the talks and witness the ribbon cutting ceremony.

When:

Oct. 1-31, 2008

Where:

Seoul, Daegu, Busan, Incheon, Kwangju, Goyang, Sungnam, Kyungsan, Jeonbuk and Jeju

What:

PHOTOVOICE: Children’s Perspectives on Road Traffic Safety will be exhibited at 10 traffic parks during the month of October.

Since last April 2008, nine students at Hwail elementary school have participated in this program. They have taken photographs of their pedestrian environments, including behaviors demonstrated by pedestrians and drivers, as well as dangerous obstacles and conditions they felt posed a risk to their pedestrian safety.

In Korea, Safe Kids Korea will exhibit photos taken by students from all over the world in Child Traffic Safety Parks in 10 major cities including Seoul, Busan, Daegu and Incheon for the month of October. The exhibition is free of charge.

When:

Sept. 27-28, 2008

Where:

Mumbai, India

What:

PHOTOVOICE: Children’s Perspectives on Road Traffic Safety will be exhibited on Sept. 27 at Scouts-Guides Pavilion, Veer Savarkar Marg, Shivaji Park.

he exhibition will be open to public on Sept. 27 from 12:30 p.m, to 6:30 p.m., and on Sept. 28 from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

The exhibit will be located at a central park opposite the mayor’s bungalow. The guest list includes the Joint Commissioner of Traffic Safety and FedEx V.P. Jacques Creeten.

Certificates will be provided to the student photographers who participated in the project. The exhibit will travel again after the festival season starting in mid-November for Children’s Day and continue through January for Road Traffic Safety Week.

When:

October 8, 2008

Where:

160 Safe Kids coalitions across the country will hold more than 500 local events at elementary schools

What:

Events will include educational assemblies, press conferences and large group walks to and from school.

Organizers will highlight important local issues including unsafe intersections, streets that lack safe sidewalks and dangerous areas where more than one pedestrian has either been hit or almost injured by a car.

List of events