International Walk to School Day is an international event that focuses on child pedestrian safety and safe neighborhoods! On Wednesday October 6, 2010, the Tenderloin Neighborhood Association will be spearheading this event for the TL.

The Tenderloin Neighborhood Association in partnership with the Tenderloin Branch of the YMCA, the Tenderloin Community School, the Tenderloin Police Station and the Chinatown Community Development Center’s 201 Turk Street building will be setting up “Wellness Stations” throughout the neighborhood to celebrate and bring attention to pedestrian safety issues that children, and other pedestrians, face each day in our neighborhood. The Association will be taking the event one step further and focusing on health, wellness and nutrition.

We will be setting up ‘Wellness Stations’ throughout the neighborhood. Each ‘Wellness Station’ will be equipped with health snacks, water, a Tenderloin-tailored pedestrian safety booklet, a “wellness expert” and disposable cameras.

The “wellness expert” will be there to talk to the kids about the importance of being active and staying alert! The disposable cameras will be available for kids and parents to take and document pedestrian safety hazards throughout the neighborhood, which will later be presented to the Board of Supervisors’ Public Safety Committee.

The Tenderloin Neighborhood Association is organizing the event and supplying each partner with the listed items at each station.

Are you interested in the TNAssociation setting up a ‘Wellness Station’ at your location? Please email tenderloinneighborhood@yahoo.comno later than Friday September 17, 2010. Remember, the Tenderloin Neighborhood Association provides all the goodies for your ‘station.’ All you need is a 6 foot long table!

Are you interested in donating items to be placed at the stations? Or have information you think would be great for the safety booklet? Please email tenderloinneighborhood@yahoo.com.

Hope to see you and your kids at one of the stations. For more information, please email tenderloinneighborhood@yahoo.com.