Local Actions winner hosts Art Contest

For his project “Youths for Post-Crash Care”, Stephen Kome Fondzenyuy and his team went to different schools across Cameroon to educate students about road safety, post-crash care, and meaningful youth involvement. Their sessions focused specifically on what post-crash care is, what its advantages are, and how knowledge about it can help reduce mortality rates of victims of road traffic crashes.

The teaching sessions gave steps on how to effectively carry out a post-crash care response. These steps include; (1) Calling for medical health immediately, (2) Checking for danger before approaching the victim, (3) Asking the victim about offering assistance, (4) Administering necessary first aid if you can do it immediately, (5) Avoiding moving the victim to prevent further injury, and (6) Comforting and reassuring the victim that help is coming.

Submission by one of the students

Included in their teaching sessions were creative interventions that invited and encouraged students to create different works of art that focused on road safety efforts led by young people. The team received submissions of videos, drawings, posters, poems, essays, flyers, and more.

Through the team’s intiatives the project was able to engage over 300 students from 10 schools while receiving 80 submissions for their art activities.