Speakers at the symposium on traffic awareness.
Parents should spread traffic awareness among children. This will in the long run will help have safer roads, according to experts.
“We educate our children on the proper values and ethics, likewise, we must also teach them about traffic values that they will help protect both their life and that of the others on the roads,”, said Aisha Jassim Al Kuwari, Chairperson, of Qatar Voluntary Centre (QVC).
She was talking at a symposium organised by Traffic Department under the title “role of woman in spreading traffic awareness”. The participants stressed importance of women’s role in creating traffic awareness, and the need to support women to face challenges they face due to traffic accidents.
“The role of women in spreading traffic awareness is very important and it is more than the role of man due to her role in the family. The role of women and their contribution in creating a traffic sense among children must be supported in order to achieve traffic safety,” Al Kuwari said
“We should first educate our children on how to sit in the car and what they should do first when they get into a car. We should also caution them against the effects of reckless driving,” Al Kuwari added.
She said “to reduce road accidents we must increase traffic awareness and traffic sense among the people. Family is considered as the first school for children, so the family members should show them how to respect traffic rules.”
For her side Dr Hanan Fayad said that “the woman is the one who is responsible of spreading awareness especially during the first seven years of child. This is when a persons basic personality is formed.” She also called for establishing women association to spread traffic awareness.
