Like warfare, severe poverty doesn't jibe with safe places for children to play together in a public setting. Nonprofits from all over the world have concentrated efforts in Haiti to address the need for playgrounds. The magnitude 7.0 earthquake in January 2010 that killed and left homeless many thousands of people drew a great deal of international attention and aid in the wake of the disaster. Prior to the earthquake, the Disasters Emergency Committee reports: • More than 70 percent of Haitians were living on less than $2 a day. • 86 percent of national capital Port au Prince residents lived in slum conditions. • 80 percent of education in Haiti was offered in often sub-par private schools because the higher- quality state system provided an inadequate number of schools. • Half of Port-au-Prince residents didn't have access to latrines and one-third had access to tap water. One example is Kids Around the World, a religiously themed group that since 1994 has built n
The Safe Child Campaign is the only leading organization dedicated to the “Collective Safe Play Environment” that is safe, innovative and rewarding to our children. We educate, train, advocate, and certify. We build alliances and partnerships with the community to provide a superior learning environment for our children. We are engaged in a broad range of children safety issues, concerns and lobby to change federal and state laws to protect our children.