The Alliance for Safe Children (TASC) is a non-profit organization formed in 2002 to address the issue of child injury in the developing world.
[7] They worked with UNICEF, with whom they organized a conference in 2004 that reported on their findings from surveys and research; the keynote speaker was Kul Gautam, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, who praised TASC and its founder.
[8] The conference, according to a report to the Executive Board of UNICEF, was to lead to "the development of programmes on child injury prevention.
"[9] In 2008 the results of their seven-year "groundbreaking study"[5] were published, in a report that indicated that suffocation and drowning were the most easily preventable causes of death for children under five years of age.
[15] With help from the Australian government, TASC partnered with the Royal Life Saving Society Australia, in establishing an International Drowning Research Centre based in Dhaka and opened in August 2010.