Int’l Walk To School Day-October 3
We Are Racine has partnered up with, The Racine Police Department, SafeKids and Fed Ex for their annual “International Walk To School Day”. This is a worldwide event that is being held on October 3,2012. This year we are working with the children who attend Wadewitz School and live in the areas of Jacato Drive/Rapids/Mt. Pleasant areas.
Fed Ex and SafeKids will be out in the morning to teach how to walk safely to school along with a quick breakfast and then everyone will walk to school together. After school kids who attend will stop back at the Jacato COP House for an after school treat! WE ARE RACINE is excited to be partnering with these wonderful organizations for this event!
Some history on this program
The Problem
In the United States, pedestrian injury is a leading cause of injury and death for children ages 1 to 14. In 2009, an estimated 13,000 children were injured and a total of 244 child pedestrians lost their lives.
What We Do
Safe Kids Worldwide and program sponsor FedEx created Safe Kids Walk This Way to teach safe behavior to motorists and child pedestrians and create safer, more walkable communities.
The goal of the initiative is preventing pedestrian-related injury to children. Since the launch of the program in spring 2000, Safe Kids Walk This Way has spanned the globe, engaging FedEx volunteers to reach families in hundreds of communities throughout the United States and around the world.
Safe Kids Walk This Way relies on FedEx employee volunteers and encourages new partners, including public officials, public agencies, community organizations and parents, to join Safe Kids Worldwide coalitions to improve conditions for child pedestrians.
The Results
Since the beginning of the program, more than 2.2 million students have joined with nearly 14,000 FedEx volunteers in 5,500 schools for International Walk to School Day—the program’s largest and most widespread activity.
5 Responses to Int’l Walk To School Day-October 3
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If the police are so busy protecting the 5,000 ghetto kids from one neighborhood, who will protect the good kids from the rest of the city?
racinenative72
09/23/2012 at 5:29 pm
You really need to do your research before stupid comments come out of your mouth…. where did I say that a ton of police are participating. Do you know what COP stands for, evidentally NOT. Community Orientated Policing. Their COP houses are open to the community. Ignorant people like yourself, make the work I do more worthwhile! p.s. Your email might be junk, your IP isn’t, have a good rest of the evening
racineuncovered
09/23/2012 at 8:13 pm
Beth – You know I very rarely comment these days, but I do feel that their comment is not wholly wrong.
While I understand that you are promoting this particular block effort because of your involvement, but it does, through your pride, make it seem like this is the only neighborhood involved.
A day like this is an event that should have many areas of concentration and importance in our city. But your wording and your stressing of this particular area leads one to believe that this is the ONLY event occurring.
While the comment about “ALL” the department protecting the kids of the Jacato area is incorrect, the meaning is still obvious. That one area is being favoured over areas that could now be deemed more dangerous, just through your efforts in that one area.
The name of the group is “We Are Racine” but one could be led to believe through the narrow-minded pride that it is “We Are Jacato”
Honestly.
antiwesley
09/23/2012 at 10:19 pm
No, we use the Jacato COP house as a base, we have worked with kids all the way down to Mt. Pleasant St, kids from other areas too: 16th Street and kids that live on 6th Street have been with us. If you read the posts, you would realize Kris that we are working with the elderly in the community to help Meals on Wheels, we are also working on other things. I would ask that you also go back and reread all the posts about We Are Racine. This isn’t a race, this is a journey and we choose the area of Jacato Drive and the entire SURROUNDING AREA to start with. I won’t spread volunteers so thin that what we are trying to becomes ineffective, one area at a time.
Here’s the first post http://racineuncovered.org/2012/06/we-are-racine-we-are-taking-our-community-back/
We aren’t here to fix the entire city in a day, week or month. If you think about it and it was that easy, someone would have done it a long time ago. Kris when I met you, you seem that you are motivated, you could be doing the same in your area which needs help. I welcome comments, but people need to do their homework and READ information before making assumptions. People still complain about the city, etc but they don’t do what I try to live by.. Step up or Shut up. I think it’s great that Safe Kids and Fed Ex asked us to participate. I would also tell parents and residents in the future to contact them if they want this program in their neighborhood/school. Honestly
racineuncovered
09/24/2012 at 1:28 am
The entire Wadewitz School including teachers, students and administrative staff and been invited to participate with this, it’s about all children learning to walk to school safely.
racineuncovered
09/24/2012 at 1:45 pm