Spurs and Orlanda Pirates wear the Tag for Zenani and the Decade

Spurs and Orlanda Pirates wear the Tag for Zenani and the Decade

by | Nov 10, 2023 | News & Blog

In memory of Zenani Mandela and to raise awareness for the Decade of Action for Road Safety, Tottenham Hotspur and the Orlando Pirates wore the yellow road safety Tag on black armbands during their match on 19 July 2011 at Mbombela Stadium, South Africa.

Source: www.FiaFoundation.org

The yellow Tag for the UN Decade of Action is intended to serve as the ‘AIDS ribbon’ for road safety, unifying global support for the effort to save millions of lives on the world’s roads. The teams are wearing the Tag symbol on armbands in order to raise awareness for road safety and honour the memory of Zenani who was killed in a car crash on the eve of the 2010 World Cup. 

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The Nelson Mandela Foundation, the South African Department of Transport and independent charity the FIA Foundation are running the Zenani Mandela Scholarship for Road Safety, a UN Decade of Action initiative. The Scholarship was set up in Zenani’s memory to help train South African road safety professionals and also encourages road safety awareness raising activities to be carried out.

At the Mbombela Stadium where the match was being played, a film for the UN Decade of Action was shown at half-time. It featured Zoleka Mandela, mother of Zenani, calling for action on road safety in South Africa and around the world. Fans of both teams also wore the Tag during the game. After the match, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, 19 year old Karabo Lushaba, met the Spurs players for a photo session with the Decade Tag.

A range of sports stars, celebrities and high profile figures are wearing the yellow Tag and supporting the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety. Inspiring figures to have given their support include former US President Bill Clinton, Burmese human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi, musician and campaigner Sir Bob Geldof, and actress Michelle Yeoh.

In the world of sport others such as the Ghana national football team have previously worn the Tag while competing, notably during their match with England at Wembley in 2011. Tottenham Hotspur also raised awareness for the UN Decade of Action on 18th July in a Mandela Day initiative at their training session with Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele, and representatives of the Mandela family.

Click here to watch the short Decade of Action film played at half-time >

Vacancies update: apply by 31st July for the CORE Group

Vacancies update: apply by 31st July for the CORE Group

by | Nov 10, 2023 | News & Blog

The recent announcement of vanacies at YOURS to join the new CORE Group – Coordinators of the Regions has generated a lot of interest. We have received applications from around the world, from Africa to India to the Mediterrenean to South America. But applications are not closed yet, to be in with a chance to be a CORE Group member, you still have more than a week to apply!

The deadline for the CORE Group Vacancies is 31st July 2011, this means that there is still lots of time left for you to apply if you are interested. While we have received a number of applications, all applications will be considered equally on based on their own merit and we expect to be receiving applications till deadline closure.

We are looking for Regional Coordinators in: 

  1.  African Region
  2. Eastern Mediterranean Region
  3. South and Middle Americas Region
  4. South East Asia Region
  5. Western Pacific Region

YOURS has been in contact with applicants who have applied to let them know applications have been received. If you have not received an confirmation email, your email may not have been sent or there was an error in the email. If you do not receive a confirmation email within 48 hours of submission, please contact Mr Manpreet Darroch for more details.

You can click on the links above to find out more information about the vacancy profile for each region. If you are intersted in applying but are unsure which region your country fits into, you can find out here. The links take you to our Vacancy Page, where you can find out how to apply.

Contract type: Volunteer
Duration: 24 months (1 August 2011 – 1 August 2013)
Date: 14 June 2011

YOURS is recruiting for the CORE Group! from YOURS on Vimeo.

Promo video focusing on YOURS’ new recruitment for Coordinators of the Regions. www.youthforroadsafety.org for more info!

Tune into Traffic: How road safety campaigns can be participatory

Tune into Traffic: How road safety campaigns can be participatory

by | Nov 10, 2023 | News & Blog

Tune into Traffic, UK is a campaign that is run by young people for young people; very much like YOURS. It’s content is entirely user generated and peer initiated which means young people themselves are the people responsible for creating its awareness medias and tools.

Tune into Traffic is a road safety campaign based in the United Kingdom that operated through a structure of inherent participation with young people. This means its is young people who make the decisions at the campaign and it is young people who work together to create road safety awareness tools and media to convey a message of road safety to other young people; their peers.

At Tune into Traffic, a trend has started to form; young people who have heard about the campaign have taken it upon themselves to do something. These young people are not necessarily engaged in the workings of the campaign but have been inspired to want to use their own skills to raise awareness about the information Tune into Traffic has conveyed to them. This illustrates that youth around the world; when empowered with knowledge about an important cause, will step up and do use their skills to make change to their desired cause, in this case, that is road safety.

This ‘doing something’ has manifested in various ways, people have put up the Tune into Traffic posters and leaflets up in their workplaces, schools and youth clubs but also, young people have used their talents to create their own media. One video created for Tune into Traffic was sent to the campaign central and featured an animated video of Tune into Traffic’s current campaign focus: young people distracted by music while on the road. A second video sent to the campaign was a short recorded video of a young person going about his morning routine, stepping out for his day while being distracted by music with fatal consquences.

This approach, where young people themselves take it upon their own selves to create media for road safety is an approach endorsed by YOURS; infact it was this approach that acted as the rationale behind the World Crossing Campaign whereby youth delegates around the world shot their own media for a larger project. When young people create messages themselves, using their own initiative, creativitiy and resources the result is very authentic and inspiring. This is why YOURS promotes this type of approach where young people take it upon themselves to use their own skills, talents and creative inquiry to create awareness tools that will educate their peers. People can use their own passions to make changes; this is how we can be truly peer-to-peer led.

You can view the user generated media on this page, the first is the animated video created by Brendan Lehane, the second is a short awareness video created by Ben Kammerling and the third is Tune into Traffic’s own earphone advert.

You can now share news from YOURS with one simple click!

You can now share news from YOURS with one simple click!

by | Nov 10, 2023 | News & Blog

YOURS has added extra functionality to our website giving you even easier tools to share our news stories with your collegues, friends and family on your social networking sites. This makes sharing road safety information simply a click of a button, easy and it raises awareness too!

As you will be able to see on the bottom of each of our news story pages; there is now a share button that allows you to share to ANY social network on the internet! We have the of course, the most popular sites; Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin but by clicking on the plus sign, you can share to Myspace, Care2, Blogster, Hotmail and hundreds more!

Now you can easily share road safety news with your contacts all over the internet! We think that this will help you raise awareness about road safety issues on your pages in a straight foward way. We encourage you to share news stories of interest on your pages such as Facebook and Twitter and let your friends know that you are serious about road safety! It is a very simple way to bring attention to our focus on youth and road safety issues!

Why not give it a try now? You can find the share button on every single news story. You can browse our news stories here and to share the story, simply click on the story of interest, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the social network you would like to share the story.

By doing this, you are helping YOURS to bring attention to global road safety and this sharing of information become truly peer-to-peer led with you, the website users sharing information yourself!

Spotlight on: TeamAlert – The Netherlands

Spotlight on: TeamAlert – The Netherlands

by | Nov 10, 2023 | News & Blog

This month, YOURS has been in conversations with organizations around the world and we are very excited to put the spotlight on TeamAlert. TearmAlert is an innovative, engaging and youth-led road safety organization that have engaged in a range of youth and road safety projects in The Netherlands.

TeamAlert is a youth-led NGO for road safety based in The Netherlands. TeamAlert started on initiative of the Dutch Minister of Transport in 2000. An important motive for this was that young people are highly at risk in traffic and, moreover, hardly aware of their vulnerability.

In 2000 the minister asked five young people to devise campaigns and activities with other young people to raise awareness on road safety. Who else reaches young people better than young people themselves? They were called “TeamAlert” and developed their own style of communicating. ‘Original’ and ‘a little risky ” were and still are the characteristics of all campaigns and activities. In 2003 TeamAlert grew into an independent and professional youth-led NGO, convinced of the principle for and by young people. Currently they have 14 young people working full-time on youth and road safety issues. Together they reach hundreds of thousands of young people every year with their road safety campaigns.

Activities
Today TeamAlert has many successful actions and campaigns developed and implemented, including: the Witte Waas (about drugs in traffic), Kruispunt (a road safety debate at schools) and BobZone (focused on drink driving). The campaigns can count on the enthusiasm of a large group of young people who together contribute to road safety in the Netherlands.

Peer education
TeamAlert speaks directly to young people and their responsibilities, openly discussing important road safety issues. TeamAlert does this on an original and contemporary way. The messages we bring is accepted by young people, since it is brought by young people who experience the same world as their peers. This allows us to highlight our road safety message on a realistic and effective way. During our campaigns and actions we never use the ´pointing finger´, but originality and humor. This goes along with a realistic and informative message that young people have to realize that traffic in The Netherlands is a serious matter.

XXIV World Road Congress – Taking place in Mexico 2011

XXIV World Road Congress – Taking place in Mexico 2011

by | Nov 10, 2023 | News & Blog

Since 1908, the World Road Congress has been the premier international event for roads and road transport. This XXIVth edition will present current research and best practice, provide a venue for discussion of advances in technology and practice and bring together road transport stakeholders to facilitate collaboration and information sharing.

Past congresses have attracted over 3.000 delegates from across the world working in government, corporate and international associations. The Congress will showcase innovation, progress and new directions in all areas of road transport ranging from road safety, administration, infrastructure, sustainability and maintenance.

If you work, or have an interest, in any field of roads and roads transport the World Road Congress is a must for you to attend. You are invited to visit the host country, Mexico, discover its well known hospitality, culture, and ancient history. You will experience the joy and excitement of a place where tradition and modernity mix in a constant effervescence for your delight. The World Road Association (AIPCR/PIARC) since 1909 celebrates every four years, the World Road Congress, an event which invites professionals of roadsand transportation to present and discuss presentations betweenthe country members and looking forward to identify,develop and share responsible solutions for today’s problems.

An event that great personalities of the world of roads attend; general directors, first level executives of companies related with this activity, in all the world and that has counted with the presence of several dozens of ministers in charge of the road infrastructure and the transport by highways in their respective countries.

You are cordially invited to the celebration of the XXIV World Road Congress. The World Road Association waits for you in Mexico City from September 26th to 30th of 2011.

MOBILITY, SUSTAINABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT: YOURS INVOLVEMENT
At the Congress, YOURS’ Director Mr Floor Lieshout will present a 20minute oral presenation on YOURS: Youth for Road Safety and our activities for the Decade of Action for Road Safety. Here, YOURS will be publishing a paper at the event about youth and road safety issues.