Safety Club 4th Anniversary Celebrations

Millions of Children to Benefit from “Safety Club" Child Abuse Prevention Safety Kits and Digital Tools

The newly launched Teacher Training Safety Kits teaches Safe & Unsafe Touch, in addition to a short animated video and IOSApp that brings fun and interactive learning methodologies
HYDERABAD, INDIA, December 21,2016: Safety Club (www.safetyclub.orgl a non profit organisation focused on empowering children with safety skills has rolled out a combination of Teacher Training Kit and Safety Tools for Teachers as well as Children to teach, learn about safe versus unsafe touch for kids between the ages of 2 to 7 in a fun and interactive way. These new tools also test children’s understanding of safety around them in a simpler manner.

The teacher training kit is available in English & Telugu and comprises of a printed book plus digital information that are freely downloadable from Safety Club website.
Safety Club also announced the release of free to download iOS App and a short animation video to raise awareness about safe versus unsafe touch targeted at parents and children. The short animated video and IOS App was formally launched by Shilpa Reddy, the Brand Ambassador for Safety Club, amidst a gathering of students, parents and teachers. The user friendly iOS app is developed by Paradigm IT and Bulbulapps, Annapurna Studios helped Safety Club create the short animation video.

Thousands of teachers, their children in schools and beyond schools will be able to leverage the well researched simplified information presented in the teacher training kit. In addition, to these materials created by Safety Club, the founders and their team of teachers continue to conduct workshops in various underprivileged and government schools on how to protect ones children from potential abuse or victims of abuse.

Unveiling the details Sumana Rao, Co-founder said, our ‘Safety Club teacher training and digital tools for children will provide thousands of children, parents and care givers interactive advice on . how to recognize the difference between a safe versus unsafe touch and how to seek help in case of an unsafe touch in a simplified way."
"Every child has a right to safety so they can grow up to be happy adults. Our app and short animation video launched.today lends support to children all over the country and is just a click away, Sumana added.

"Our animated film and teacher training video enable educators across the country to access these tools freely on our website and learn simpler, audience friendly ways to conduct safety workshops anywhere, any moment. To promote our initiative we have hired 3 full time teachers in AP and Karnataka to teach safety skills in schools" Chandana Raju, Co-Founder, Safety Club said.
With the help of teachers and volunteers, Safety Club has trained over 80,000 + children to date and hopes to reach out to many more children, parents and teachers to accomplish their vision to help children grow up in a safe environment as well as to learn how to keep predators away.

According to a study by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development, 53 percent of children [1 in 2 children) in India get abused while growing up .The survey proved that boys were as vulnerable to abuse as girls. And once a child is subjected to the trauma it leaves scars on the children that are very hard to heal from - that range from depression and anxiety to suicidal tendencies that prevent the child from leading a happy and successful life.