On the occasion of the 2024/2025 school year, the Interactive Road Safety Education Center in Rabat hosted the second edition of Open Day activities on Saturday.
This initiative, organized in cooperation with the Pikala Bikes Association, which aims to revitalize the role of the bicycle in society and to offer a set of awareness programs for environmental education and road safety, is part of within the framework of the National Road Safety Strategy. 2017-2026, particularly with regard to the road safety education axis.
This is also part of the implementation of the work program of the National Road Safety Agency for the year 2024, and taking into account the importance and importance of the educational approach, which is the one of the essential approaches to confronting the phenomenon of road accidents and addressing its problems. negative manifestations, particularly in terms of acquired knowledge and behavior of road users.
According to the organizers, the Open Days initiative aims to achieve a set of objectives, including the presentation of the Interactive Traffic Education Center as an educational establishment and the services it offers to children, direct communication with residents, the possibility of discovering the activities and identifying their importance for transmitting to young people the basic principles of road safety, as well as for developing their sensory movement skills in order to qualify them to use road space in a safe and healthy.
On this occasion, a set of activities will be organized in the Ibn Sina Urban Forest space for the benefit of children, including interactive theoretical and practical workshops, games and competitions, as well as artistic and musical activities.
Hoda Zuhri, head of the road education and prevention sector at the National Road Safety Agency (NARSA), highlighted that the open days initiative aims to communicate with residents and promote the activities of the center, noting that (NARSA) considers road safety education as an essential element. lever to reduce road accidents, “From this point of view, these projects intended for the school community have been developed, thanks to parallel activities which aim to consolidate the principles of road safety and the rules of good conduct among children . »
Zuhri indicated that there are seven interactive road safety education centers distributed in different regions of the Kingdom, and that they operate in partnership with regional education and training academies, in addition to specialized partners in the field of disability.
The Interactive Road Education Center is an educational space that simulates different traffic situations adapted to the child’s age and level of awareness. Its objective is to identify the components of the road space, to familiarize children with the highway code, to teach them to manage traffic situations. , as well as raising awareness of the dangers of road accidents and their consequences.
