The China's tenth disaster prevention and reduction day, April 26th, marked the completion of the construction of the first four safety experience classrooms Zigong City, Sichuan Province. The classrooms were donated by the Children Safety Education Project of the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund (CCTF) in helping develop children’s safety emergency education in a long-term and systematical way.

This year is the tenth anniversary of Wenchuan Earthquake that struck Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, on May 12, 2008. China’s children's safety education has developed rapidly over the past decade. Closely working with the Education Department of Zigong, the safe experience classroom will use innovative educational models to make children's safety education more interesting, useful and powerful, thus helping more children in Zigong to avoid harms from disasters.
 

Students use equipment in the safety experience classrooms to carry out simulated emergency alarm drills.

Students bandage to stop the bleeding of  "wounded" arms.

The CCTF conducted investigations and pilots on the status of safety education in primary and secondary schools across the country after the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008. In 2010, the CCTF launched the “Children Safety Education” project in response to the need to strengthen disaster prevention education and improve the emergency response mechanism.

In the past ten years since the project was implemented, the project has raised a total of 100 million yuan in donations and built more than 330 "safety experience classrooms" and four “safety experience centers” in 67 cities across 29 provinces (municipalities/municipalities) in China. It held more than 200 safety education trainings and more than 100 safety education activities, which benefited over 10 million children, teachers, and parents.