Road Safety and Awareness Campaign

Road traffic injuries are the single biggest source of fatality among children aged 10 to 24 worldwide. Awareness of traffic and road safety practices is literally a matter of life and death for children. The motivating questions behind the road safety education projects were: “How can we help children become road safe—able to use roads wisely and well? How can we teach children to harness the power of roads to their best advantage, without becoming victims in the process?” The CWSI’s primary goals for child road safety are to increase road awareness and proper use among children, to bring road safety idea’s into the community, and to assist in the implementation of programmes and practices that will challenge the status quo and create safer environments for all of us, but particularly for children and youth. The students’ behaviour and their awareness of road safety rules is important for their safety. It was concluded that if each student adopts a ‘safety first’ approach when using the roads, results can be far-reaching.

The idea of the awareness campaign is to  facilitate smooth and safe movement of the students because if they follow safety norms while using the road then the community itself becomes safe. It was thus decided to conduct awareness programme to cultivate the culture of road safety among school students, as the school is a unit of society.