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The Alliance for Safe Children (TASC) is a non-profit organization formed in 2002 to address the issue of child injury in the developing world.〔(TASC info page ) hosted on International Life Saving Federation web site. (retrieved Oct. 2010)〕 The founder is Pete Peterson, former United States Ambassador to Vietnam. Michael Linnon is the technical director. TASC works in cooperation with other organizations, such as the Red Cross and UNICEF.〔 Its aims include raising awareness of child injury; promoting injury prevention programmes; conducting and supporting research; and raising funds and creating alliances with NGOs, international organisations and governments so that the number of child injuries can be reduced.〔 TASC's objectives are driven in part by studies suggesting that far more children die from preventable injury than from infectious disease - according to UNICEF about one million children die of preventible injuries each year.〔 A common specific cause of death is drowning. ==2004 conference and 2008 report== They worked with UNICEF, with whom they organized a conference in 2004 that reported on their findings from surveys and research; the keynote speaker was Kul Gautam, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, who praised TASC and its founder.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.unicef.org/eapro/Towards_a_world_safe_for_children.pdf )〕 The conference, according to a report to the Executive Board of UNICEF, was to lead to "the development of programmes on child injury prevention." In 2008 the results of their seven-year "groundbreaking study" were published, in a report that indicated that suffocation and drowning were the most easily preventable causes of death for children under five years of age. The publication of the report generated interest from printed media around the world and from Australian television. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Alliance for Safe Children」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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