November 23, 2021
by
Child Health Initiative
Categories: Road Safety
Tags:
Amend, Child health, Safe and healthy journeys
Child pedestrians are among the highest-risk groups in Mozambique for road traffic injuries, the leading cause of death for children over the age of five in the country. Unlike their peers in developed countries, the vast majority of school children in Mozambique walk to school, and they usually do so unaccompanied by an adult. A child in Africa is twice as likely to die on the roads as a child in any other region of the world.
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September 8, 2020
by
Child Health Initiative
Categories: COVID-19, Road Safety, Air Quality
Tags:
Child health, Safe and healthy journeys, UNICEF
The school journey now poses a double threat to the world’s children – dangerous road traffic and COVID-19. To keep children safe from both, UNICEF and the Child Health Initiative (CHI) issued new guidance. Along with Save the Children, the three have created a complementary database to share examples of safe and healthy journeys to school during the pandemic.
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