RSP’s director attended the 6th Global Meeting of Road Safety NGOs in Crete, Greece. The Sixth Global Meeting was held 9–13 April 2019 and was attended by 270 participants including NGOs and road safety stakeholders from 76 countries around the world.
Highlights included workshops, training, the poster exhibition opened by Jean Todt, the High-Level Symposium, the presentation of the FedEx Road Safety Award, UN Global Road Safety Week event, photo exhibition and the preparations for UN Global Road Safety Week and the Third Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Sweden 2020.
200 people processed through the streets of Chania in support of the Fifth UN Global Road Safety Week. NGOs carried 154 photographs of road crash victims to demonstrate the number of people lost every hour on the world’s roads. NGOs wrote their commitments and demands on a board.
Photographs from Alliance members around the world demonstrated the valuable work that NGOs do under the theme of “From Global Commitment to Local Action”. The exhibition was opened by Rock Sherman, FedEx Express Europe who paid tribute to the work that NGOs do in difficult situations around the world. RSP had 5 photos in this exhibition.
Ali Zayerzadeh had 3 presentations during the meeting on “Key Road Safety Risk Areas from Gender lens” , “Role of NGOs in promoting post crash care” and “Fundraising techniques: How to convince private sector”
