Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) Director General Dr Rizwan Naseer said school-going children were harbingers of safety and could change specific road behaviours of their parents and others as well.
Addressing “Road Safety Awareness Seminar for Kids” organised by Safe Communities Pakistan (SCP) at Emergency Services Academy on Wednesday, he said children could play a vital role in building safer communities in Pakistan by sensitising the general public about road usage.
Over 250 school children of Elite Grammar School, Balsome House School and Children’s Academy High School participated in the seminar which was also attended by members of Executive Body of SCP, including Message Communication CEO Sohail Aziz, TABA Foundation Director Khalid Butt and Road Safety Trainer Asif Khawaja.
The objectives behind the seminar were to create the awareness of road safety matters among school children as life safety is a right and responsibility of all.
The DG said citizens should abide by traffic rules and regulations while driving as this was a matter of their own and lives of others.
