Training Minister Rosy Akbar has brought up concerns whereby youngsters have been seen jaywalking across our streets with headphones on and scarcely focusing on approaching traffic and their environmental factors.
While talking during the dispatch of the VIA – Road Safety Education Program Akbar says there have been reports of youngsters going across the streets around evening time, unaided and wearing a dim dress, getting practically undetectable to drivers.
She says these requirements to change.
Akbar expressed that sadly there have been numerous situations where youngsters have been engaged with street occurrences, frequently finishing off with fatalities adding that too often, they have gone over circumstances where our young ones have shown an outright dismissal for street rules.
She says they can’t take the wellbeing of our youngsters out and about for conceded and through this program, they will enable the youthful ones, by first showing them why their unsafe conduct can prompt, at that point showing them how they can stay away from traffic-related wounds.
Akbar adds they need them to comprehend the advantage of safe conduct out and about – it is to secure their lives.
She likewise reminded guardians that they are their kids’ first and essential instructors and she encouraged guardians to take up a more dynamic job in showing their kids the significance of street security and to consistently guarantee their youngsters are administered when voyaging, if conceivable.
The Ministry of Education has gotten together with the Land Transport Authority of Fiji, the Fiji Police Force, and Total (Fiji) Pte Limited to leave on the new street security training activity.
-Fiji Village
