The Resource
Pack is designed for the Red Cross, other organisations, teachers,
youth workers and road safety practitioners who want to operate
road safety programmes in their countries.
You will find here
-
Instructions on how to raise awareness, influence behaviour
and encourage community action
- Interactive
education materials (available in 16 languages)
- A
printout version of the whole content of this CD-ROM
(available in 16 languages)
The Red Cross Road Safety and First Aid Resource Pack is also
available for free download on www.1-life.info.
This material has been tested between October 2007 and March 2008
in the following countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic,
Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia
and the United Kingdom.
It has been successfully piloted in numerous European schools
and has received the official support from the Ministries of Education
of Cyprus and Greece.
More than 29 000 participants (children, teachers and road safety
practitioners) have been engaged in the process of testing of
the
Resource Pack.
"Road traffic injuries are a major but neglected public
health challenge that requires concerted efforts for effective
and sustainable prevention. Of all the systems which people have
to deal with every day road traffic systems are the most complex
and most dangerous. Worldwide, an estimated 1.2 million are killed
in road crashes each year and as many as 50 million are injured.
Projections indicate that these figures will rise by about 65%
over the next 20 years unless there is new commitment to prevention."
(World
Report on Injury Prevention, WHO 2004)
