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FEATURED ARTICLES
Application form
You, our network, are the fundament of the global youth NGO for road safety and represent our most important stakeholders: the youth. In order to know your needs and identify possibilities for partnerships, we would like to know more about you as an individual / organization. We drafted an application form we would like you to fill in. Please find the application form and the accompanying explanation letter attached.
This form will be the official way for new members to become part of the network. At a later stage, this information will be published on our web site, giving an overview of activities by country and organization. We look forward to receiving your completed application form.
First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety
As you can read under the "upcoming events", the First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety will be held in Moscow, Russia, on 19-20 November 2009. YOURS will attend this conference and we are at the moment exploring opportunities how we can involve young road safety advocates in the event. It would be great if you could try to be part of your government's official delegation to the Ministerial Conference as a youth representative. To do so, we suggest that you contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in your country, which would have received the invitation from the Russian Federation. We would like to update our 2007 Youth Declaration and bring this as a statement from the youth to the Ministerial Conference. This meeting will also give the opportunity to further communicate about the launch of YOURS in the month following the Ministerial Conference. For more information about the event, visit http://www.who.int/roadsafety/ministerial_conference
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YOURS logo
YOURS, the name of our NGO, was chosen based on your feedback. We now chose our logo in the same way. Thanks to all your fabulous input, we decided upon the logo below :
Our name, YOURS, relates to the ownership you have of the NGO - it is yours. We decided our visual image needed to clearly communicate our name, but also needed to reflect our link to road safety. The traffic light is a universally recognized symbol that needs no explanation. It is a clear, sharp and simple visual, that is easily understood and remembered.
The traffic light is used as part of the name, but we will move towards using it as a separate logo on various applications: T-shirts, stickers, etc. Our logo uses the universal presence of the traffic light and will be marketed so it becomes a strong and young image that stands for youth and road safety. Ideally our NGO will be internationally known and recognized by the use of merely a traffic light - something you see every day.
Our communications partner is currently finalizing the design of the logo. We will share the guidelines and the final logo with you as soon as possible.
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NEWS AND REQUESTS FROM MEMBERS
Below are several updates from members. We thank you for your contributions. The first story describes a project we supported in Ghana, while the second story updates on a peer-to-peer approach used by one of the biggest NGOs in the Netherlands, TeamAlert. The third story introduces Gerard Kaboré, one of our newest network members, and describes the NGO he founded recently. Thanks again to Anupama, who greatly helped us again with the preparation of this update! Feel free to get involved yourself via Steven ( lauwerss@who.int)
African Vibes, Ghana: Fluorescent vests
African Vibes is an organization that wants to give the people of Akuapem, Ghana, a better future by setting up small-scale projects in close contact and in consultation with local people and authorities. Last year, Tommy Bruynen of African Vibes was in Ghana on a visit to a high school for the hearing impaired. He was concerned by the fact that students had to cross a busy road to reach their classrooms and cross it again at night to reach their dormitories.
These students however are also unable to hear the horns of oncoming vehicles and accidents happen on a fairly regular basis, some of them fatal. This inspired Tommy to look into possible ways to supply the school with reflective vests. He contacted YOURS to explore possibilities and Michelin, YOURS' partner, agreed to provide and distribute 300 vests among the students - we are very grateful for this support from Michelin. As a next step Tommy hopes to be able to put up signboards by the road in order to inform drivers of the presence of these deaf students. This effort shows how something as simple as a reflector vest can save lives, but also how this network might be able to help you if you let us know what we can do for you.
For more information on African Vibes, please visit http://gedp.ulyssis.be/
TeamAlert, the Netherlands: Targeting the Youth
TeamAlert is a foundation in the Netherlands that focuses on raising awareness about road traffic risks among the youth (15-25 years). It does this through structural projects targeting schools and projects focusing on the risks associated with drugs/drinking and driving. What makes TeamAlert stand out is that it has an entirely youth-based organizational approach: it works via education on a peer-to-peer level, the most effective way to reach out to young people. The team, led by Janet ter Braak, came up with several innovative projects to achieve this: Project BobZone targets young drivers in discotheques and rewards those who do not drink all night. Project Witte Waas (translated loosely as White Blur) uses special outfits and various other gadgets to demonstrate the possible ill-effects of driving under the influence of narcotics. Aside from this and many other projects, TeamAlert also organizes debate sessions on high schools to talk about road safety.
While TeamAlert primarily seeks to organize awareness programmes, its vision is to create a network for youth to be able to communicate with and influence their peers. The visibility of TeamAlert at public events and the repeating character of their programmes aim at bringing road safety into everyday conversation. This is a great example of what once was a government initiative and now grew to be a youth-led organization doing incredible work. For more information on TeamAlert, visit http://www.teamalert.nl
Action Solidarité Routière (ASR), Burkina Faso: Taking Action Together
The extraordinary number of road traffic accidents in Burkina Faso was one of the biggest inspirations for Gerard Kaboré to start up his own NGO. On a personal level, being closely associated with accident victims, made this project even more urgent. In the beginning of 2009, Gerard met Aliou Oumarou, who attended the 2007 World Youth Assembly for Road Safety in Geneva as the youth delegate from Niger, at a road safety training session held in Portugal. Aliou helped him in building a network and establishing his NGO in Burkina Faso: Action Solidarite Routiere (ASR). ASR's aim is to reduce the number of road traffic accidents, targeting educational institutions, such as schools and driving schools, as well as approaching the general public through training and awareness campaigns. Gerard and his organization try to achieve this through a close partnership with the Ministry of Road and Public Transport. As a new NGO he will need all the support he can get. Aliou helped him with his first steps; we will look at opportunities to support him with our network.
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OTHER NEWS IN GLOBAL ROAD SAFETY
Past
On 15 July, WHO released the Global status report on road safety. More than 1000 road safety experts from around the world collaborated to develop this state-of-the-art document on the magnitude, risk factors and road safety strategies in 178 countries. This report is the first broad assessment of road safety using a standardized survey instrument and clearly show that significantly more action is needed to make the world's roads safer. To access the one-page profile of road safety related issues in your country and for further information, visit http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_status/2009/en/
The 10th UN Road Safety Collaboration meeting was held in Bangkok, Thailand on the 3-4 June 2009 and was hosted by UNESCAP. The meeting was attended by over 60 participants, who discussed preparations for the First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, the Second UN Global Road Safety Week in 2011 and the upcoming Decade of Action. Floor was given the opportunity to give a presentation about YOURS.
La Prévention Routière Internationale (PRI) organized a World Congress with the theme "Young people and innovative road safety solutions" from 24-26 June 2009 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. About 45 speakers addressed the meeting, representing politicians and policy makers; communication, media- and campaigning specialists; students and youth organizations; researchers; representatives from WHO and the EU and speakers from road safety organizations. Floor presented YOURS and its future strategy. For more information, visit: http://www.priworldcongress2009.com/view.cfm?page_id=9551
From 25-27 June in Solferino, Italy, 600 young people from around the world gathered for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The participants could chose between 12 workshops on several topics daily, among which one on road safety. In a joint approach with the Society, the Global Road Safety Partnership and WHO (represented by YOURS), 40 young people were trained on road safety. In the end the group contributed to the Youth Declaration of Solferino. To access their final statement, visit http://www.ifrc.org/meetings/events/solferino/170700-Youth_declaration-EN-4PAGES-LR.pdf
Upcoming
The annual World Day of Remembrance for Victims of Road Traffic Crashes takes place the third Sunday in November each year. Members of the network are encouraged to use the opportunity of this day to draw attention to victims and their families and to promote road safety. For further information, visit http://www.who.int/roadsafety/projects/world_day/en/index.html
The Government of the Russian Federation will host the First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Moscow on 19-20 November 2009. More information about the event can be found in the "featured article" section and on http://www.who.int/roadsafety/ministerial_conference.
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