| Imagine trying to catch your breath through a soda straw. Now imagine learning to read at the same time. That's the challenge of asthma, the lung disease with the fastest growing incidence in the US and in the world.
Until all air is clean air, our children need informed and mobilized adults to watch over and help achieve clean air in school zones–-a place where extra-ordinary numbers of children congregate to learn.
The Asthma Free School Zone serves NYC schools and their surrounding communities by designating special school zones with health-protective signage, providing environmental assessment walk-arounds and air sampling, environmental health and advocacy training. The aim is to keep children in class by improving the air quality inside and outside of class.
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