A Global Movement

By November 2015, the number of people signed up to the #SaveKidsLives campaign had reached over 1 million supporters. Signatures in support of the Child Declaration were gathered all across the world both online and offline in a range of events organized from the grassroots to national level.



Hundreds of thousands of people took #Safies for the campaign to show their solidarity to #SaveKidsLives.



These 1 million signatures were presented to global road safety decision makers from all across the world at the Second High Level Meeting for Road Safety in Brasilia, Brazil.



Speaking at the event, global road safety campaigner Zoleka Mandela said, "No more empty commitments. No more delay. We are approaching five years into the Decade of Action for Road Safety. Road deaths are actually rising in nearly 70 countires. Where is the action? Where is the urgency?"



The #SaveKidsLives campaign was given a large feature at the meeting with leaders pledging to take action as well as mapping action to reach the Global Goal of halving road traffic deaths by 2020.





As part of the build up to the event, over 500 school children from around Brasilia came together to mark the success of the campaign but to call on decision makers to now take real action to #SaveKidsLives.



In Brazil, at an NGO rally, it was strongly expressed that the campaign should continue after the Brasilia meeting. It was decided that the campaign would continue into an action orientated phase to hold decision makers to account and to enact 5 steps to #SaveKidsLives. The campaign continues to create awareness as well as call for action to #SaveKidsLives.