By Ravy Vang | Executive Director
Every year, our school conducts different workshops to the community, students and staff in order to develop and improve capacity, knowledge, skills and sharing experiences among our stakeholders. These workshops are traffic workshop, and First Aid Training. These workshops benefit and influent to the community and our school itself. So pleased read more how the workshops conducted and influenced to our people in the community where we work with.
Traffic law workshop
After our communication with Siem Reap Police Commissionaire, they agreed to offer the workshop about traffic law, traffic signs and traffic fines to our community. The police expert comes and shares the workshop. There are over 200 participants in the workshop. These include parents, students and teachers at our school, Salariin Kampuchea organization. .
During the workshop, firstly the police officer presented generally the slides about traffic accidents, case study, penalty, traffic law and signs in Cambodia to the participants. The participants felt really scared and upset when they saw the accident pictures shown in the presentation. Next the police expert showed the reasons why accidents happened. The most of the reasons are fast driving over speed limited; don’t respect the traffic law, and drunk driving. In the figures shown that in average 10 people died every day in traffic accident in Cambodia.
Secondly, he shortly presented about the traffic signs in Cambodia. These included accident signs, warning signs, direction and information signs, turn left, right, single entry, odd and even signs as well as traffic light signs for example, red light is for stop, yellow is for speed reduction and green light is for travelling.
In additional, the police expert explains about the penalty and fine when people do not respect the law and commit against the law. For example, a motorbike driver drives without helmet; drive faster than speed limited, what fine they will get and how much they have to pay the fine to the police.
Finally, there are a lot of questions asked from participants to the police officer. First question was how many meters we could use right or left light of our motorbike/car before the destination arrive? Second question was if a driver don’t wear a helmet how much fine they would get? Etc.
To sum up, this workshop was important for our people, our community, students, teachers and parents. They learnt and again a lot knowledge and experiences from the workshop. They really enjoyed the workshop and they would like to have the workshop again in the future. It is also helpful to reduce traffic accidents and avoid the accidents because they realize and they learnt. Below is the feeling of our staff who expressed her understanding.
Chandy, one of our staff expresses her feeling about traffic law workshop. “Hello, my name is Chandy. I am an accountant and receptionist at Salariin Kampuchea Organization. I learnt a lot from the traffic workshop. I learn how to drive properly, I realize about the punishment/fine when I drive again the signs or don’t respect the law. I feel really scared when I saw the pictures of traffic accidents. For me, I feel that it is useful for our people to learn from the workshop in order to avoid the accidents. I think other communities and children could have this workshop, too”.
First Aid Training workshop
In order to improve First Aid understanding and ability of our teachers and staff who work with children and adults, our school invited our volunteers who experienced and qualified about First Aid to share among our team members. It was divided into three sessions separately. One session lasted for one hour and half.
Firstly, our volunteer presented about general rules of First Aid focusing on CPR, DRABC and chocking. She showed the slides and explained each topic based on theory as well as the rules. After that she applied and practice on CPR, how to serve victim, how to put hands on chest and make moment for CPR, listen people breath and make airway of victim and how to keep the victim safe after they are conscious.
Furthermore, we also practiced on chocking one by one among our team members who join the training. When we help a victim when he/she got a chock, what we can do to help the victims when we see people get a chocking so she asked us to practice with one another. After the slide presentation, we start to practice; we use and press our hands softly under chest of the victim and then hold them and pull out our hand on their chest. It is a very good example to learn and practice. We all really enjoy the training with a lot of fun.
David, one of our staff expresses his feeling about First Aid Training workshop. “Hello, I am David. I am IT and English teacher at Salariin Kampuchea Organization. I think it is good to know how to help people weather who get injures. I got First Aid training with a volunteer. I feel it is most important helping a victim before sending them to a hospital. I highly recommend to everyone should have First Aid knowledge in our daily life”.
In the next three months, we will celebrate Khmer New Year Party at our school, conduct a Child Protection training to teachers and staff and hand washing activities.
We would like to thanks everyone who supported us through GlobalGiving with your hard earning money. Width your help we hope to continue and build upon the success of our non-formal education program.
We wish you happy New Year, every success, happiness and enjoy it with your family and friends!
Warmest regards,
The Salariin Kampuchea Team
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