Empowering children for safer roads, stronger communities, and healthier futures
The interactive road safety initiative executed at Ban Song Phraek School Friendship 92 by Asst. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Awais-E-Yazdan and a dedicated team of 38 Department of Occupational Health & Safety, School of Public Health, Walailak University students represents a vital effort to protect young pedestrians. Targeting 125 primary school students, the project transformed critical traffic scenarios into gamified exercises while directly advancing UN SDG 4: Quality Education and UN SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals.
The student’s team converted essential safety rules into engaging, play-based challenges centered around key road safety scenarios:
• Crosswalk & Traffic Sign Rules: Children learned essential pre-crossing checks (stop, look, listen), proper actions when encountering oncoming cars, and the practical meaning of critical “Stop” and “No Entry” signs.
• Signal Literacy: Interactive games taught students how to react immediately to traffic light colors, reinforcing safe stopping procedures on red and caution behaviors on yellow.
By addressing real-world hazards through dynamic activities rather than traditional lectures, the initiative achieved high student participation and strong concept retention (SDG 4). The structured pretest and posttest methodology yielded significant positive results in traffic safety knowledge among the 125 participating students, demonstrating that experiential learning effectively bridges the gap between rule memorization and practical risk recognition.
Additionally, mobilizing 38 University student facilitators under the guidance of Asst. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Awais-E-Yazdan highlighted the impact of academic-community partnerships in fostering local safety cultures (SDG 17). Ultimately, this project proves how gamified public health education equips 125 primary school students at Ban Song Phraek School Friendship 92 with life-saving road safety habits.
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