Local educators trained in road safety through Local Actions

One of the Coalition’s Local Actions winners, Nkumbuye Ami, is leading educational training programs throughout Rwanda as part of his Traffic Care Youth Initiative Project. Apart from conducting teaching sessions for primary and secondary school students, Ami and his team have also taken the initiative to train teachers and educators on road safety. 

Through the project, Ami and his team trained teachers to become mentors when it comes to educating their students on road safety and post-crash care. During their first session to train teachers, 50 educators attended along with the Vice Mayor Aloysie Nyiransabimana of the Huye District and the Inspector of Police from Traffic Police in the Southern Province and the Director of Health in the Huye Province. 

”I remember recently in one school we had road crash for 13 students one of them died, other one left with permanent disability. The cause of this crash was due to drive with high speed and drive under influence of alcohol, road crashes is preventable if there is good education on road safety, advocacy and strong legislation on road safety. I conclude wishing you to have fruitful training and I really promise you a fully support that you need to contribute in decreasing the number of death related to road crashes” - Vice Mayor Aloysie Nyiransabimana 

Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety Project Manager, Raquel Barrios, spoke during the training session to talk about how the Local Actions project is creating concrete and tangible actions led by young leaders. “We are, at the end of the day, contributing in assuring that people, children, youth, and other vulnerable road users are protected from a system that does not respond to their needs”.

Testimonies about road crashes were also given by the Head Master at Nyanza Primary School and Vision Zero Youth Council Founder and Executive Director Alison Collard de Beaufort.

Apart from discussing road safety with the participants, the session also featured a training session for post-crash care which was facilitated by Ami and his colleagues. The participants were taught about key facts about road crashes around the world, traffic signs and signals, pedestrian behavior, first aid care for road crashes, recovery positions for road crash victims, and more.