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Original article from FIA Foundation – www.fiafoundation.org\/news\/safe-and-healthy-journeys-to-school-in-botswana-supported-by-fia-foundation (Image source: FIA Foundation)<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Botswana school zone received vital road safety improvements through collaboration between the automobile club Emergency Assist 991<\/a> and road safety NGO Amend<\/a>, supported by FIA Foundation.<\/a><\/p>\n Gaborone West Junior Secondary School in Botswana has undergone life-saving infrastructure improvements to make the school journey safer for over 800 pupils. The changes were made using Amend\u2019s School Area Road Safety Assessment and Improvements (SARSAI) program, the fourth school in Botswana to use SARSAI interventions. The road safety improvements were specifically designed to suit the requirements of its pupils with special needs, providing step-free access for those in wheelchairs at key locations.<\/p>\n Specifically, the location on Mosekangwetsi Road adjacent to the school (and serves as one of the key crossing points for the students) was upgraded from 1- star to 3- stars with the installation of a new marked crossing, school zone sign and speed hump to help reduce vehicles’ operating speed to lower than 30km\/h.<\/p>\n Several government agencies and organisations including the Gaborone-based Society for Road Safety Ambassadors (SORSA)joined forces in the SARSAI implementation.<\/p>\n A ribbon-cutting event was used to highlight the impact of simple, low-cost infrastructure changes to key national and regional decision-makers to advocate for national commitment to child road safety. Key officials present were the Director of Botswana Traffic Police, the Area Councillor at the Gaborone City Council, and representatives of local government. Road engineers, representatives of the National Planning Commission, and those representing the partner organisations were also in attendance.<\/p>\n Ayikai Poswayo, Amend Programme Director, said: \u201cWe hope that the infrastructure improvements will assist in making the journeys to school for children and the wider community safer \u2013 and most importantly for the children with special needs at this school.\u201d<\/p>\n Emphasizing the importance of cross-sectoral collaboration as key to the success of the infrastructure implementations, Paul Setswe, Road Safety Coordinator at Emergency Assist 991, added: \u201cChild safety especially around schools must be given absolute priority. We commend FIA Foundation, Amend, SARSAI, SORSA as well as other key stakeholders for this life-changing project and we look forward to many more projects of this magnitude in Botswana\u201d.<\/p>\n The event brought together local government officials, representatives of the traffic police, city council, and partner organisations to draw the government\u2019s attention to the serious risk of road crashes that students face daily, and to advocate for national commitment ahead of the SDG Summit.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/www.fiafoundation.org\/news\/safe-and-healthy-journeys-to-school-in-botswana-supported-by-fia-foundation” button_text=”Read full article from FIA Foundation here” button_alignment=”left” _builder_version=”4.23″ _module_preset=”default” background_layout=”dark” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" La zone scolaire du Botswana a b\u00e9n\u00e9fici\u00e9 d'am\u00e9liorations vitales en mati\u00e8re de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 routi\u00e8re gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la collaboration entre le club automobile Emergency Assist 991 et l'ONG de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 routi\u00e8re Amend, soutenue par FIA Foundation.
\nL'\u00e9cole secondaire de premier cycle de Gaborone West, au Botswana, a b\u00e9n\u00e9fici\u00e9 d'am\u00e9liorations de ses infrastructures vitales afin de rendre le voyage scolaire plus s\u00fbr pour plus de 800 \u00e9l\u00e8ves.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starratingforschools.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starratingforschools.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starratingforschools.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starratingforschools.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starratingforschools.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4704"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/starratingforschools.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4814,"href":"https:\/\/starratingforschools.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions\/4814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starratingforschools.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starratingforschools.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starratingforschools.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starratingforschools.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}