Evacuaniños.

Evacuation cart for children.

Chile is well known for the amount of earthquakes that it has throughout the year. Pre-schools and schools have not resolved the issue of evacuating kids safely and efficiently, making care takers, teachers and parents very worried when an emergency occurs. The products for evacuation that are currently on the market are not effective as they are difficult to use, slow, and bulky. Additionally, many care-takers use improvised evacuation systems that are also ineffective and unsafe; i.e. a shopping cart.

In order to address this issue, I put together a team to design a safe, easy to use, and fast evacuation system. Evacuaniños (directly translates to evacuate kids) is equipped and prepared to evacuate 6 children in a short amount of time. It is suitable for all types of emergencies such as earthquakes, fires, gas leaks, etc. Evacuaniños is easy to assemble; with a single movement it is open and fully functional. Each seat has the capacity to hold an infant (3 months to 12 months) or a toddler (13 months to 5 years old), depending on which strapping system is used.