Concern Mothers Movement for women's Participation in Development Sierra Leone has been working with disadvantage children, Youths and women since 1998. We are currently working with over 100 hundred schools, 100 school teachers and 70 youth Lollipop ladies and Gents in Bo, Moyamba, Pujehun and Bonthe Districts of Sierra Leone with the Aim of saving the lives of school going pupils when going to school and coming back from school at road crossing points in the towns and city in the South.
The road safety situation in Sierra Leone is serious and has deteriorated over the last years, mainly due to the growing vehicle population and ineffective implementation of the road safety interventions, Economic growth including rehabilitation of roads and increased vehicle growth will increase road safety challenges in the country. SLP statistics show that 2,204 road traffic accidents (RTA) were reported during 2017, 165 of these were fatal crashes in which 216 persons were killed.
During last decades injuries due to Road Safety Accident have risen by 150% in Sierra Leone in contrast to 30-40% in the Southern Province. The chances of Road Safety Accident can be averted to a large extent, if school children who are going to be adults of tomorrow are made aware of road safety measures, Help them cross the road when going to school and after school will help save Sierra Leone Future Leaders and Development specialists. Hence this Project is focussed on school children.
Road traffic injuries and death have a terrible impact on Children, communities and country. They involved massive cost to often overburden health care system. So the project intends to reduce the accident rate caused to Children and aged people when crossing the road by 90% by November 2022.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
