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Road Safety in Kenya & Traffic Amendment Bill

Usalama Watch Initiative; a non-profit, NGO registered under section 10 of the Kenya NGO coordination Act. The main objective of the organization is to promote road safety and save lives on Kenyan roads.

Each school term we receive reports of children involved road traffic crashes that result in injuries and fatality. Upon our intervention in schools road crashes and incidences involving children cease. Our school safety program is based on the commitment that no child should ever have to negotiate dangerous traffic on his or her way to or from school.

Too many of our children are being killed or maimed as they travel to and from school because our roads are too dangerous. It is in this respect that Usalama Watch Initiative is proposing a road safety partnership with your organization. Usalama Watch Initiative in collaboration with the task force members consisting of five organizations inclusive of Usalama are spearheading the amendment of the Traffic Act, Cap 403 to include safety measures for school children. Read more

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School Safety Program

Created: 02 April 2014

stage in life and the road safety culture needs to be nurtured at an early stage because they are tomorrow’s drivers.

The concept is very simple – Usalama Watch Initiative will identify work with all schools countrywide to help with the following road safety measures:

  1. Identify a staff-member who is responsible, reliable and available for duty 2hours before and after the school day at an agreed crossing point. This staff member is called the Crossing Guard.
  2. Supervise the Crossing Guard to ensure that he/she appreciates the importance of his/her position and performs to high standards
  3. Orient children to the importance of the Crossing Guard and enforce the policy that they should only cross at a selected area.
  4. Supplement the pay of the selected crossing guard.
  5. Supplement pay of the crossing guard’s insurance.
  6. Provide orientation and periodic refresher training modules
  7. Establish a zebra crossing and other warning signs at a reasonable distance from the crosswalk
  8. Provide traffic uniform i.e. a branded reflector jacket and STOP sign for the crossing guards’ daily use.
  9. Sponsor the school to our road safety events like the children’s traffic park.
  10. Organize and coordinate the official school launch.

Schools we sponsor include:

  1. Mlolongo Primary School                   - Athi River County
  2. Milimani Primary School                    - Naivasha County
  3. Our Lady of Mercy Shauri Moyo      - Nairobi County

Sponsors

                     

The Cotswold

Foundation

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