Honeywell and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) announced the winners of the fourth annual Got 2B Safe! Awards Program that recognizes teachers committed to keeping children safer from abduction and sexual exploitation. This year, the program honors 105 teachers from 32 states, including five Grand Prize winners that have created effective techniques to teach children the important safety rules in the Got 2B Safe! program.
“Honeywell has a long standing commitment to family safety and security. With Got 2B Safe! we are helping to protect our nation’s children from abduction and exploitation,” said Tom Buckmaster, president, Honeywell Hometown Solutions. “We are thrilled to honor these teachers for their efforts to provide life-saving lessons to their students and bringing vital awareness to such an important issue.”
Though many are recovered quickly, the U.S. Department of Justice reports that 797,500 children were reported missing during a one year period of time. That results in an average of 2,185 children reported missing each day. These numbers highlight the need for increased child safety programming in our schools.
In 2003, Honeywell and NCMEC created the Got 2B Safe! program to arm teachers, parents and children with vital child safety skills. This year, five Grand Prize winners will receive a free eco-classroom makeover from the national design firm, DesignCentrix, valued at $10,000, and 100 First Prize winners will receive $500 worth of school supplies. To enter, teachers submitted a lesson plan or essay demonstrating how they taught the Got 2B Safe! Four Rules of Safety.
For more information, visit the Got 2B Safe website.
