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Summary of activities for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
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- Created: Thursday, 25 November 2021 12:28
Luchemos por la Vida developed several activities in remembrance of the 20 people who have died every day in Argentina in the last 25 years and to stop the pandemic of traffic deaths.
- Communication campaign. A press release was sent to over 5000 Argentine media: radios, television channels, news agencies, websites and other audiovisual media, authorities and officials, educational and religious institutions, intermediate associations, legislators, etc. with a message of tribute to the victims and of alert and awareness, with a petition to the responsible authorities, which was disseminated by many of them throughout the country, among them:
Todo Jujuy. World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Victims: numbers that hurt.
El Expreso Jujuy. World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Victims.
El Día de La Plata Newspaper. Renewed demand for measures to avoid more deaths.
El Liberal Newspaper. A plan with real strategies to reverse this reality that hits us.
La Provincia Group. They ask for measures to prevent traffic deaths from increasing.
EQS News. Today is the World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Victims.
El Sol Newspaper. They ask for measures to prevent traffic deaths from increasing.
Chaco Día por Día. They ask for measures to prevent traffic deaths from increasing.
Every day 20 fatal victims in Argentina: here 20 faces of 2019. Watch the video.
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- Social media Campaign. Luchemos por la Vida developed, in commemoration of this date, together with the National Road Safety Agency, and with the adherence of Madres del Dolor, the awareness campaign in social networks: "Small details make big differences: #MakeaDifference" with banners to promote the use of safety elements: seat belts, CRS, helmets, and safe driving: speed control and not drinking alcohol while driving so that there are no more victims in traffic.
- Activities with churches. With the support of the Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrations and Tourism, a letter and a printable poster were sent to evangelical and catholic churches and sent to Argentinean parishes asking each bishop, priest and pastor to say a few words during the celebrations on Sunday 21, not only in memory of the victims, but also about the responsibility of believers in safe driving. The poster is aimed at remembering the care of life on the streets and roads, especially the importance of giving priority to pedestrians, the most vulnerable role in the traffic system.
The Christian Alliance of Evangelical Churches (ACIERA) also adhered to the commemoration.
- Activity with the relatives of traffic victims. Luchemos por la Vida participated, together with national and City authorities, in the tribute ceremony that victims’ relatives carried out on Sunday 21, next to the Monument to Traffic Victims, placed at 9 de Julio Avenue and Independencia Avenue, in the City of Buenos Aires, which concluded with a balloon release and the sounding of the Firemen's siren.
- Schools for Life. In the road safety education area, teachers and students from different schools in the country, who received our communication, carried out didactic activities allusive to the date, among them, the Benito Quinquela Martín Institute from Isidro Casanova, by the teacher Verónica Enrique, to raise awareness for the prevention of road crashes, to avoid more victims in traffic accidents.
The most important tribute to the victims is doing what’s necessary to stop these preventable deaths from repeating themselves.Keeping up with the request from the United Nations under the “Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021/30”, to halve deaths in traffic on this decade, pending objective in our country, Luchemos por la Vida calls up on each and every one of the citizens, and the competent authorities, to take on their responsibility with concrete actions to diminish significantly the number of deaths and injured people in traffic.
We all have a responsibility in caring for life
facing the road deaths pandemic.