Children's Traffic Education

Teaching safety skills to children can provide lifelong benefits to society, but should be seen as a long term  intervention strategy. Experience in many countries has shown that reliance on individuals or organisations visiting schools to give talks on road safety are not effective on their own. Children may remember the messages in the short term, but effective and sustainable development of positive attitudes towards road safety are best achieved by inclusion in the core curriculum, either as a compulsory subject in its own right or as a cross-curricular theme. On our scale of assessment as an NGO, this remains an issue that requires urgent intervention considering the challenging environment our children have found themselves in.

Stanley C. Mbanaja Peters
Project Director (RSAAEI)