Is Your Building Safe?

Post date: Aug 21, 2012 10:28:56 PM

What is wrong with this picture? This after-school program is only 4 weeks old. There are great teachers, plenty of children and interested parents. In most cultures, a school is not a school without a building. Finding a suitable structure can be difficult. Here, a local church donated their Sunday structure for the classes. The problem, as you can see, is the cracked concrete floor. Throughout the class children wer constantly navigating the cracks to avoid chairs from falling. In some ways it is not much different than meeting outside, though outside might have provided fewer dangers. Sometimes a building is not a physically safe place for children (or adults). What options are there for this class. One, they could meet outside, the weather was good most of the time. Two, they could ask the church to repair the floor which could be done with only a few bags of concrete.