KIT A CHILD TODAY AGAINST ROAD ACCIDENT:
The main aim of Children Accident Prevention Initiative is to protect children within the ages of 5 – 14 years in the country from road crashes and to promote the safety of these categories of our population. This is in line with global demands for the safety of children in school. Just recently, the Nigerian parliament called for the greater commitment towards the protection of School children, in the same vein, the former British Prime Minister Mr. Gordon Brown also launched the safe school initiative. These are all indicative of the fact that safety of children remains a global challenge which we must all meet.
The safety materials are designed to add more visibility on the school children and to serve as caution signs to reckless motorists and other road users. School children in Nigeria constitute the class of road users known as the “Most Exposed Road Users”, They are vulnerable to road crashes and could sustain high degree of injuries in the event of any accident on our highways: This is because while they use the road to their respective schools, they are not protected by either seat belt, air bags or crash helmet.
The statistics of death among these children are increasing daily. We are aware of the losses many parents have incurred through road accidents involving school children. Children are the sustainable bedrock of continuity of any nation, without children there will be no adult and without adults there will be no workforce, without a veritable workforce the society will remain mortally backward or at worse may face extinction.
Road accident is one of the leading causes of death among public school children and the financial burden it creates is placed on the parents and by extension the nation. This huge cost could be spent on schools, hospitals and other child related infrastructures for economic development. Therefore our young children represents our future and must be protected from fatal road mishaps to enable them grow up and contribute to the nation’s development.
In urban cities school children cross 2 – 3 major roads and highways before getting to their schools. Some of these roads and highways are constructed without road signs, traffic lights, streetlights, zebra crossing, speed limits/breakers and pedestrian overhead bridges. In most cases traffic warders are not at their duty post to control vehicles, this constitute a big treat to the lives of these children as they carry out their civic rights.
Road accidents distract school children in the developing economy. When a child is knocked down by hit and run vehicle, he is maimed or injured for life, his future is distracted, he is confused and slowly his dreams drifted away from such a heart desire.
The children accident prevention initiative is indeed a cornerstone to build a strong nation. Our primary aims are to touch the lives of schoolchildren who cannot afford the luxury of being driven to school by their parents, guidance or school buses.
So worrisome is the rehabilitation, expansion and construction of additional network of roads and highways across the country which would mean more vehicles, consequently more accidents, injuries, disabilities and deaths among school children.
The safety materials are designed to add more visibility on the school children and to serve as caution signs to reckless motorists and other road users. School children in Nigeria constitute the class of road users known as the “Most Exposed Road Users”, They are vulnerable to road crashes and could sustain high degree of injuries in the event of any accident on our highways: This is because while they use the road to their respective schools, they are not protected by either seat belt, air bags or crash helmet.
The statistics of death among these children are increasing daily. We are aware of the losses many parents have incurred through road accidents involving school children. Children are the sustainable bedrock of continuity of any nation, without children there will be no adult and without adults there will be no workforce, without a veritable workforce the society will remain mortally backward or at worse may face extinction.
Road accident is one of the leading causes of death among public school children and the financial burden it creates is placed on the parents and by extension the nation. This huge cost could be spent on schools, hospitals and other child related infrastructures for economic development. Therefore our young children represents our future and must be protected from fatal road mishaps to enable them grow up and contribute to the nation’s development.
In urban cities school children cross 2 – 3 major roads and highways before getting to their schools. Some of these roads and highways are constructed without road signs, traffic lights, streetlights, zebra crossing, speed limits/breakers and pedestrian overhead bridges. In most cases traffic warders are not at their duty post to control vehicles, this constitute a big treat to the lives of these children as they carry out their civic rights.
Road accidents distract school children in the developing economy. When a child is knocked down by hit and run vehicle, he is maimed or injured for life, his future is distracted, he is confused and slowly his dreams drifted away from such a heart desire.
The children accident prevention initiative is indeed a cornerstone to build a strong nation. Our primary aims are to touch the lives of schoolchildren who cannot afford the luxury of being driven to school by their parents, guidance or school buses.
So worrisome is the rehabilitation, expansion and construction of additional network of roads and highways across the country which would mean more vehicles, consequently more accidents, injuries, disabilities and deaths among school children.