Nancy's Call To Action

Nancy Baker’s personal journey through pain began in 2002, when her 7-year-old daughter Graeme drowned after becoming trapped underwater by the suction of a spa drain.

What Nancy learned following Graeme’s death has inspired her to ensure her daughter’s death was not in vain. In the months following her death, Nancy learned that Graeme was one of many children to be victimized by drain entrapment and that these “accidents” had been occurring for decades. 

Additionally, Nancy felt these incidents were all the more tragic in that they are 100% preventable when proper precautions are taken. 

The preventability of Graeme’s death as well as the deaths of so many other children makes the loss more difficult for Nancy to accept, and it is the major motivating factor in her work to make drowning prevention by entrapment or more common causes a nationally-recognized issue.

She has joined Safe Kids Worldwide as a parent advocate, aiming her efforts at the passage of federal legislation that would provide states with an incentive to pass strong laws to require safeguards, including fences/barriers and anti-entrapment drain covers devices that are vital to keeping kids safe from drowning as Graeme did. 

How You Can Take Action

If you are a parent, or have children in your life whom you love, please reach out and help Nancy Baker and Safe Kids prevent children from drowning as Graeme did.

You can begin by asking your members of Congress to support The Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act. 

Help Nancy and Safe Kids in our efforts to get the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act passed in Congress.

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