Aziz Rabbah, the Minister of Equipment and Transport, proceeded on Monday in Laayoune to the opening of the fifth regional seminar on road education.

The Regional Committee for Road Safety, in cooperation with the National Committee for the Prevention of Traffic Accidents, the regional directorate of equipment and transport of Laayoune, the Regional Academy of Education and Training and the regional directorate of youth and sports, wants to formulate proposals for measures capable of stopping the carnage on our roads. According to the organisers, this seminar aims to imbue participants with the Swedish experience in the field of road education, to show the psychic and physiological limits of children with a view to taking them into account in any road education action intended for children, to identify the risks incurred by children in the school environment and to formulate and propose measures to remedy them according to a participatory approach involving several stakeholders. Four workshops were formed which addressed the themes of the problem of traffic accidents involving children, the physical and physiological aptitudes of children in the road space, the attitudes and interactions of children in the road environment and the "exploration and learning of children" approach.

During his intervention, Mr. Rabbah emphasised that the Ministry of Equipment and Transport is determined, within the framework of the new approach to fighting traffic accidents, to develop a series of projects, to develop road infrastructure and to encourage the use of technology to ensure greater mobilisation.

While the director of the Education Academy, Aziz Nahya, expressed the commitment of all the academy's staff and its various components to contribute to the success of this project, by making the acquisition of a culture of road safety by the pupil an act of citizenship and a lever for civic behaviour. Road safety, he said, must be an important axis of civic behaviour capable of rooting even more confidence in the national school. The participants in this seminar organised under the slogan "4,000 killed... we are all responsible!" will receive certificates of participation at the end of the meeting.