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WINNERS OF THE COMPETITION ON TRAFFIC SAFETY IN ARMENIA ANNOUNCED
armradio.am
17.05.2011 18:35
In an event today concluding the Road Safety Week in Armenia a winning
team of six schoolchildren from 33 school was awarded prizes for
their knowledge of traffic rules.
The Road Safety Week in Armenia was launched on 11 May by the OSCE
Office in Yerevan, United Nations Department for Public Information
(UNDPI) and the Armenian National Road Safety Council (NRSC). Its
goal was to raise awareness of road safety rules among drivers and
pedestrians, with a special focus on schoolchildren in the framework
of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020.
"Every year around 1,300,000 people in the world are killed in
road accidents, every 3 minutes a child dies," said Carel Hofstra,
Deputy Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan. "Activities to promote
safety and teach children about traffic safety do save lives and make
a difference."
"We support efforts of Armenian authorities and law enforcement
aimed at making the roads safer, however these efforts will be fully
successful if each of us - pedestrians, drivers and passengers, -
respect the traffic rules and each other on the road. We can help
save millions of lives. This is the goal of the UN Decade of Action
for Road Safety," said Maria Dotsenko, UNDPI Representative in Armenia.
Forty eight schoolchildren from 7 schools of Yerevan participated in an
interactive game "What?Where?When?" organized today for the first time
in Armenia on the topic of traffic rules. All participants received
certificates and the winning team of six was awarded the cups with
a yellow emblem symbolizing the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety
2011-2020. The Armenian Ministry of Health/World Health Organization
also contributed to the prizes.
Poghos Shahinyan, the Head of the Secretariat of the Armenian
NRSC, said: "Enforcing the use of seat belts in 2009, introduction
of compulsory motor insurance in 2011 are some of the activities
undertaken by the Armenian Government under the 2009 national strategy
on improving road safety situation. In the course of last two years
pilot classes were introduced in 50 Armenian schools and together with
the Ministry of Education and Science we are developing a methodology
on inclusion of road safety in the school curriculum."
During the Road Safety Week in Armenia, schoolchildren together
with traffic police officers advised pedestrians on crossing streets
according to the traffic rules, distributed flyers and promotional
gifts, and helped re-paint a pedestrian crossing area in Yerevan.
armradio.am
17.05.2011 18:35
In an event today concluding the Road Safety Week in Armenia a winning
team of six schoolchildren from 33 school was awarded prizes for
their knowledge of traffic rules.
The Road Safety Week in Armenia was launched on 11 May by the OSCE
Office in Yerevan, United Nations Department for Public Information
(UNDPI) and the Armenian National Road Safety Council (NRSC). Its
goal was to raise awareness of road safety rules among drivers and
pedestrians, with a special focus on schoolchildren in the framework
of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020.
"Every year around 1,300,000 people in the world are killed in
road accidents, every 3 minutes a child dies," said Carel Hofstra,
Deputy Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan. "Activities to promote
safety and teach children about traffic safety do save lives and make
a difference."
"We support efforts of Armenian authorities and law enforcement
aimed at making the roads safer, however these efforts will be fully
successful if each of us - pedestrians, drivers and passengers, -
respect the traffic rules and each other on the road. We can help
save millions of lives. This is the goal of the UN Decade of Action
for Road Safety," said Maria Dotsenko, UNDPI Representative in Armenia.
Forty eight schoolchildren from 7 schools of Yerevan participated in an
interactive game "What?Where?When?" organized today for the first time
in Armenia on the topic of traffic rules. All participants received
certificates and the winning team of six was awarded the cups with
a yellow emblem symbolizing the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety
2011-2020. The Armenian Ministry of Health/World Health Organization
also contributed to the prizes.
Poghos Shahinyan, the Head of the Secretariat of the Armenian
NRSC, said: "Enforcing the use of seat belts in 2009, introduction
of compulsory motor insurance in 2011 are some of the activities
undertaken by the Armenian Government under the 2009 national strategy
on improving road safety situation. In the course of last two years
pilot classes were introduced in 50 Armenian schools and together with
the Ministry of Education and Science we are developing a methodology
on inclusion of road safety in the school curriculum."
During the Road Safety Week in Armenia, schoolchildren together
with traffic police officers advised pedestrians on crossing streets
according to the traffic rules, distributed flyers and promotional
gifts, and helped re-paint a pedestrian crossing area in Yerevan.