Reading every day about lives lost in accidents on land and in cases of drowning, I grieve and feel let down by my own effort. I have been fighting numbers. For over 25 years I have been training people specially the youth in lifesaving skills with the hope that they will fear the pain following a fracture, a bleeding wound or difficulty in breathing and understand the need to avert dangers that accompany over speeding, lack of road sense, distraction and fatigue. Equally disastrous is aquatic activity in unknown and unfamiliar water bodies.
Advice from parents, teachers and elders has apparently no effect on an adolescent! To them playing with danger is macho. So, let us go back to the school and expose them to Road-Safety and Drowning-Prevention programmes early in their lives.
In some towns sensitive police authorities have built road safety training fields, complete with road side signage and road markings. Children with their baby cars are encouraged to manoeuvre their vehicles with a police man briefing them on why and how road signage and road markings help in safer driving. Similarly, “Swim-n-Survive” programme for children is a good start for drowning prevention.
ANY EFFORT IS WORTHWHILE IN PREVENTING ACCIDENTS AND DROWNING.
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