ART FOR VULNERABLE ROAD USERS

BY SHEHAB ABOU ZEID FROM EGYPT

Inspired by the #Artforroadsafety campaign.

Art is one of the tools for empowering, especially psychologically, that represents the motivational construct of an intrinsic task, including four cognitions that reveal a personal orientation: competence, meaning, self-determination, and impact and demonstrates cognitive orientations about their job role, as a strength-based and solution-focused conceptual framework and methodology for using visual arts to foster self-reflection and self-empowerment.

The project brief is to engage the young generation in Road Safety Movement by occupying the walls of one of the places where young people gather, such as universities, social or sports clubs and graffiti drawing. But this must be preceded by establishing a youth committee that provides not only a platform to further develop the messages of the Graffiti drawings that defend the rights of the vulnerable road users, but also to empower them.

The goal of the project is to energise the vulnerable road users' movement of youth demanding safer and efficient active mobility in Egypt through embracing the new Decade of Action for Road Safety on a meaningful youth participation basis.

ABOUT THE PROJECT LEAD

Shehab is from Egypt and currently works as a program manager of the Nada Foundation for Safer Egyptian Roads. His background is in political science, specialising in political theory. His goal is to achieve lasting social change through the process of empowerment, helping people to gain more control over their own lives within the Egyptian context. He joined the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety to upgrade my heightened situational awareness and enhance my capabilities. He has an ambitious project to build up a movement demanding essential rights in Egypt. Steps were taken to achieve this project by launching an alliance, which is titled "The Egyptian Alliance for the Protection of Vulnerable Road Users".

Impact snapshots

• Trained 26 young professionals in road safety, public health, urban planning, and sustainable development.

• Enabled youth representation at COP27 to showcase the project's road safety initiatives.

ABOUT THE LEAD ORGANISATION

nada foundation

The Nada Foundation for Safer Egyptian Roads is an Egyptian non-profit organisation established in 2014, with a focus on road safety and safe mobility. Our main goal is to work towards eliminating road traffic fatalities and injuries across Egypt and to enhance a better road safety system management that contributes to saving lives. The Nada has adhered to 4 strategic imperatives: raising public awareness, capacity building based on empowering road users' approach, networking and partnering, and advocacy & accountability.