Drogheda Independent

AgriKids farm safety

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LOCAL business AgriKids will be at the National Ploughing Championsh­ips this week delivering safety training workshops for children, it has been revealed.

The business will be teaming up with Zurich to promote Farm Safety through the mini farm safety workshops as well as asking all children to make their ‘Farm Safety Pledge’. During the course of the three day event, which has become Europe’s largest outdoor exhibition and agricultur­al trade show, AgriKids will have their ‘Farm Safe Tree’, explains Julianstow­n resident and AgriKids Founder, Alma Jordan. ‘

All the children can make a promise on how they will become farm safe’, they then write this promise on a special leaf which is hung on the tree. We did this at the Tullamore Show, it was a great success and really got the children AND PARENTS talking together about how they will be safer on the farm’. The partnershi­p is part of an exclusive three year deal and also includes a nationwide roll out of farm safety workshops facilitate­d by Ms Jordan.

Over the past 22 months, Alma has conducted these workshops to over 4500 primary school children. Taking part in school and library events as well as agricultur­al shows all around the country.

Alma said: ‘I have been working hard on proactivel­y addressing attitudes to farm safety by engaging and educating our children, empowering them to be our farm safety ambassador­s.’

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