Cameroon students taught about safe road behaviour

The project, “Youths for Post-Crash Care” uses an integrated approach that influences pre-crash, crash, and post-crash events to improve urban road safety for the most disadvantaged youths. As part of the project, lead Stephen Kome Fondzenyuy and his team from the National Advanced School of Public Works led different awareness activities on safe road behaviour that included helmet use, application of first aid, and risk factors.

The Local Actions team taught among students in three secondary schools in the area.

Youth engagement activities were also implemented to promote road safety. Students were encouraged to share their ideas through designs, paintings, videos, drawings, and graphics portraying safety messages.

Encouraging students to create art was a form of mobilising youth to contribute to the Global Plan of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2022-2030 through road safety awareness using ARTS like poems, graffiti, literature, paintings, videos, animations, short videos, mockups, drawings, comedy, and graphics.

Stephen and his team were able to reach 300 students from 10 schools in Cameroon. They also received 80 artwork submissions of the students’ understanding of road safety as well as of their experiences on the road.