The Safekids Aotearoa Safety Whare will be at the Tummy & Tots Expo for the first time in 2018!
Safekids Aotearoa’s Safety Whare is a travelling exhibition that teaches people about the most common injuries for tamariki – those that happen in the home.
Made possible through a partnership with ACC, and with funding from Starship Foundation and Mobil, the large 10 x 2-metre exhibition looks like a real whare (house). But this whare also has digital, interactive and artistic demonstrations of safety messages.
Safety messages include how you can help to prevent falls, burns, swallowing button batteries, serious cuts, drowning, poisoning and driveway injuries.
Every year 48 Kiwi children are killed, and every month 231 are hospitalised from injuries that have occurred in homes. Most of these injuries happen before a child’s fifth birthday.
Adele Blackwood, ACC Injury Prevention Portfolio Manager Communities says, “The impact of these injuries on the children themselves, and their families, is huge. It’s important we work together to help to reduce such injuries, and the Safety Whare is one way we can do this.”
Mike Shepherd, Starship Child Health Director for Medical and Community Service says, “We invite whānau to visit the Safety Whare. There they can touch, experience, have a conversation and take away valuable lessons on what they can do to prevent children from being seriously injured in their homes.”
So bring your children along to Tummy & Tots 2018 and experience this awesome resource for learning how to be safe in the home.
