Post Crash CARE project completes certification program

Cameroon, August 20 - Young leaders behind the Youths for Post Crash Care Local Actions project completed their post-crash care training and certification program. The project looks to advocate for support for the improvement of law enforcement, licensing, and training systems that mobilize and engage youth.

Earlier this month, the Youths for Post Crash Care team held a training session that taught youth participants about first aid measures, local and national road safety statistics and laws, and post-crash care. A total of 50 young people participated.

The recent certification program involved both practical and written tests. The participants were tasked to administer first aid and apply their post-crash care knowledge to different road crash scenarios. Following the practical tests, the participants underwent a certification exam facilitated by representatives of the Cameroon Red Cross, in partnership with the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Travaux Publics (ENSTP) or the National Advanced School of Public Works. 

“[The programs] not only allowed youth to meaningfully participate in saving lives through post-crash care, it also helps create job opportunities for young people, especially for females as these skills are in high demand which are often lacking in Cameroon,”

Following these activities, the Youths for Post Crash Care team expects to contribute to local efforts that improve the application of post-crash care in Cameroon, hopefully, ‘closing some inequality gaps’.

“We look forward to scaling up this activity with more potential partners”