Safety, Health and Environmental Education at Domestic Level (A Case Study)
I profoundly regret to share that two month ago in district Rajanpur, a fourteen years old kid has lost his eye due to UPS battery blast. In detail a kid coupled both positive and negative terminal of Domestic UPS battery during self fixing, which caused an explosion and fatally damaged his right eye and burn the skin. It is not a single case, in Pakistan every day dozens of similar incidents are happen but only some can be printed in news paper and most of them are not reported as well. Second embarrassing thing is that no one to teach the families, how to overcome these hazards at our homes.
According to the latest united nation (UN) report, Pakistan is the 6th largest populated country of the world and having 197.2 million population with overall literacy rate is 58%, 42% population not have the how know of the basic education. The overall literacy rate 58% is also not much satisfactory because that 87% population leave the education during primary (‘KG’ or ‘Prep’) and lack of education is crafting number of national concerns and matters such as Poverty, Illiteracy, Terrorism, Food and water crisis, Population growth, Poor health facilities, Internal and international migration, Discrimination of Sex, democracy in shape of dictatorship and un-loyal leaders (these issues are identified by Nadeem Wagan Social Scientist of Pakistan).
All the above issues are very important and need a table-talk but here I include one more important concern in social issues list that is the unawareness of families in health and safety. Domestic health and safety is an out of sighted issue but it is also important likewise the other issues. Every day in Pakistan number of safety incidences occurred such as (electric shock, fire, chemical, food and others) and leads to the fatality as discussed in above example. These incidents are occurred due to the negligence or unawareness of common safety hazards. Mostly families ignore common observation related to fire, electrical and food safety and one day they become threat of life. Once, a friend shared that due to the blast of pressure cocker in the kitchen his cousin lost her life. We also frequently and repeatedly read these type news generally but not take a proper action steps as a nation.
Both government and none-government institutes have to campaign on the safety and health awareness through effective channels. I never rebuff the efforts of government and acknowledge that they are already doing very well, such as they are advertising against Dengue Fever, Congo Virus, Hepatitis and some other seasonal fevers, what if they need more homework on it. We have lot of grey-areas to improvement our domestic life. Here I suggest some solution to minimizing the counting of fatality cases at our homes. Such as every family responsible have to teach his family specially kids and female members about the hazards related to electrical, fire, mechanical and health & food. Government bodies such as Rescue 1122, Environment Protection Departments and Agencies needs to advertise the domestic safety and health precautions and tips through printed and electronic media, and also schedule the trainings at school level and involve these topics in our school syllabus
On our side a group of Amal fellows (Myself Mubbashir, M. Amjid, Iqra, Amaara Saeed, Azka Munir and Ali Ahmad) is started a mega project for this burning issue and working voluntarily. The detail of our action step is given in below.
Why we choose this project and where launch
They main reason to choose this topic is to safe our life from hazard by minimizing its exposure of common sounding hazards. Mainly we are targeting the Faisalabad community because that it is easily in our loom but through this platform we spread our thinking and knowledge among the other cities of Pakistan through the use of social media.
How to complete this Project
Step by step work on following action steps to accomplish project
1. Coach and train schools and colleges students in Faisalabad area through presentation. In optional we will try to invite Rescue 1122 team to deliver the lecture on safety and health
2. Lunch a facebook page and through which we share the Safety tips, Common hazards and safety incidents their root causes & impact.

3. Make the videos and spread through our facebook page
4. Provide the First Aid trainings in schools.
5. Developed a First Aid mobile App.
Challanges
- Team Coordination
- Arrangement of School visits
- Collaboration of government bodies like Rescue 1122
- Inviting the maximum peoples for facebook page
- Preparation of effective training material
We are confident to carry out our project with maximum impact value and reach our voice to families and safe their life. There are many challenges to achieving our goal but whole the team is very happy and enjoying the helping community. We are very energetic and no challenge is bigger than our dream InShah Allah.
