Bhubaneswar: SAI International School celebrated Road Safety Week with meaningful and effective campaigning at BPCL Filling Station, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar.
Initiated by members of the Interact Club, IGCSE and IBCP Unit, it aimed at raising awareness about road safety and responsibility in driving by the students.
Many students delivered speeches on the importance of following traffic rules and how these rules save every life in many cases. The speeches connected to the public people with the wording and inspired a kind of positive behavioural change in the people. Some excerpts from the speeches read thus:
“Safety is not a question of choice but a necessity. Each of us can play a part in avoiding accidents by being mindful of and following road safety rules,” said Tejal Subudhi, Secretary of the Interact club.
Adding a creative dimension to the campaign, the students performed a skit, by which they illustrated the lapse of road safety measures along with the disastrous implications involved. The thought-provoking act resonated with the audience and spoke volumes about the life-taking consequences of reckless driving.
There were also hands-on efforts to promote advocacy. Students issued safety badges for advocating safe driving to the clients and employees of the filling station and pasted road safety-themed stickers on their private vehicles. They also personally counselled persons-especially those without helmets on traffic regulations, including taxi drivers, auto drivers, bikers, and pedestrians. Creative placards with heartfelt and catchy captions also joined efforts to amplify the message to the public on conscious and responsible driving habits.
The event was most thoroughly graced with the presence and endorsement of the RTO Bhubaneswar-II, Sanat Kumar Jena. Jena dished out pretty splendid gems of wisdom and experience on the road safety thing and stressed how it would take all to create a much safer road environment for all. Jena thanks the SAI International School and their students for their wonderful skit and the campaign.
That was another joy for this BPCL Manager in awarding and acknowledging these students on their initiative and mentioning how much the function awareness campaigns could create on the way of thought for the community.
An interactive session came next in the school’s Indraprastha auditorium. It involved the students and supervisors like bus drivers, who shared ideas about road safety and discussed obeying traffic rules. Badges were distributed to symbolize the commitment of the school to a safety culture.
