After a week of road safety, peer education and facilitation theory in week one of the training of road safety facilitators in Kenya, week two is now in process to put theory into practice. The 11 facilitators from across Nairobi, who were specially selected via their respective organizations are in now in the phase of designing their own workshops to run with a group of young people tomorrow.
We rounded off week one with the young Kenyans who are part of our two week training program with a focus on three key risk factors which a prevalent in Kenya; Speeding, Non-Use of Helmets and Distracted Driving. The programme trains each young person to become a skilled road safety facilitator, peer educator and road safety advocate and after a week of intesive theory workshops, the flourishing facilitators are now putting theory into practise this week by designing their own road safety workshop sessions to run with a group of young people tomorrrow.
Yesterday, we ran a demonstration workshop with a group of 30 young volunteers from around Nairobi in collaboration with the Kenya Red Cross.
The demonstration workshop run by the YOURS team was set up to enable the facilitators to see all their facilitation theory into practise, to see how the workshop process runs in half a day and see how we want them to design and deliver their workshops. Today, the young peple gather back at the United Nations Office in Nairobi to start designing their own road safety workshops based on the road safety information they have learned.
Yesterday’s session focussed on the scope of the road safety session around the world and in Kenya followed by a focus on the key risk factor of non-helmet use in Kenya.
Manpreet Darroch, Communications Officer at YOURS said, ‘This training of facilitators is really unique. After a week of interactive workshops based on all elements of creating effective youth road safety facilitators, from how humans learn, to key facilitation skills right up to the current data on national Kenyan road traffic statistics, this week poses a real genuine challenge to the budding facilitators. Now they have to put all of their theory into practise, design their own sessions and run it with a group of young people tomorrow. What is unique about this programme is that its not just about creating knowledged youth road safety advocates, its about putting these young facilitators straight to work to educate and influence their peers and that is really exciting!’.
Sheila Atieno, our CORE Group Representative and participant in the training said, ‘I am extremely excited about the training. Having been a participant of this programme, week one focused on a range of important topics affecting the youth in Kenya such as the proper use of helmets, distracted driving and speed. I was very excited at how the workshops were structured using a logical and infomed process and I’m looking forward to running the workshops this week.’
Our youth facilitator Duncan Matheka observes a demonstration workshop.
We will be back to tell how the facilitators did in their first workshops this week so stay tuned!
