Argentinië

Meeting for Innovation in Road Safety Education

The First Encounter for Innovation in Road Education took place on Friday, December 2, organized under the IMPACT international project of which we are part. More than 100 people attended the meeting that was proposed to be a space for exchange of practices in road education among various actors working on the subject. As well, a space of implementation of the concepts of Road Education through different workshops with proposals of learning-doing. The Meeting featured exhibitions from international organizations: Safe Kids China, HAHA Association of Bulgaria, IMPACT, and Responsible Young Drivers from Belgium. As well, from various national organizations and actors of road safety in Argentina: Road Commitment; Driving Consciousness; Reid Systems; The Legislator Maximiliano Sahonero; Paula Bisiau, Subsecretariat of Sustainable Mobility of the City of Buenos Aires; And Juan Manuel "Cochito" Lopez, car racer. All of them shared their experiences and activities to bring road safety to young people. The objective of the First Encounter for Innovation in Road Education was to rethink current ways of approaching road safety for young people, and to find and share innovative experiences.


Red Cross

In our second implementation, we trained mentors in order to expand the knowledge and awareness of road safety. One of the groups we worked with was the Red Cross in Vicente Lopez. The aim of these trainings, were to give out materials kits that could be used wherever and whenever. Some of the animators drove to Vicente Lopez to meet and teach the volunteers of the Red Cross how the activities and games were done; during an afternoon of November, we share a wonderful experience between all the volunteers. The people of the Red Cross seemed to really enjoy the games and were delightful with the kits given.


MINUBA

Aside from the IMPACT ((Involvement and Motivation for Participation of Active young Citizens to stand for Traffic safety) and “Sumá tu Voz a la Seguridad Vial” (“Join your voice to Road Safety”), from MINU, we do other projects that include youngsters too. That’s why on the 9th, 10th and 11th of November; we decided to implement this campaign on a different environment. MINUBA is one of the many UN models we organize during the year; because is our biggest UN model, we worked with more than 700 youngster during their lunch times and recess, and encourage them to do some of our road safety activities, in order to be aware of road safety and all the precautions they, as pedestrian, should have.


Laat je stem horen over verkeersveiligheid

Op 28 februari en 6 Maart, in Parque Centenario (Marechal, Leopoldo en Lillo AV., Buenos Aires, Argentinië) van 15:30 tot 19:30, zal MiNU, een burger vereniging, het project “Sumá tu Voz a la Seguridad Vial” (“Join your voice to Road Safety”)  opnieuw uitvoeren als een integraal onderdeel van de Argentijnse bijdrage aan de doelstellingen van het IMPACT (Involvement and Motivation for Participation of Active young Citizens to stand for Traffic safety) project. MiNU en IMPACT organiseren een samenwerkingsproject tussen organisaties uit Latijns-Amerika, Azië en Europa. Ze willen werken met jonge burgers rond het thema verkeersveiligheid. Dit wordt gefinancierd door Erasmus +, uit de Europese Unie. Het doel van de activiteit is om de jonge burgers de mogelijkheid te bieden om de gevolgen te leren van rijden onder invloed en hen bewust te maken van het feit dat dit doodsoorzaak nummer één is in Argentinië. Met behulp van spelletjes en recreatieve activiteiten willen we aan jongeren tussen de 15 en 30 jaar oud laten zien hoe de reactiesnelheid en de uitvoering van gelijktijdige taken verminderd onder invloed van alcohol.