The Rotary Club of Neapolitan Fairview led by Engr. Victor Rojas of the Department of Public Works and Highways-Traffic Engineering and Management and Consuelo Sison, chair of its Tulong Daan project, and the Alliance of Quezon City Homeowners Association (AQCHA), have organized the holding of the Early Warning Road Safety Seminar for students and teachers of the Diliman Prep High School to be held on Feb. 3 and 4.

The same seminar has also been scheduled to be held on Feb. 10 and 11 at the North Fairview School, also along Commonwealth Avenue.

Tulong Daan is the traffic management assistance project of the Neapolitan Rotary Club to improve traffic and minimize accidents along Commonwealth.

The Early Warning Road Safety seminar is part of a joint project of the Society of Philippine Motoring Journalists and Toyota Motor Philippine Corporation. It is designed to create awareness about the importance of educating elementary and high school students on road safety. The project aims to make road safety part of the regular curriculum for elementary and high school students.

Sponsored by Toyota Commonwealth, this weekend’s Early Warning seminars will consist of separate workshops for high school students and teachers aimed at introducing them through highly interactive sessions to principles and regulations of road safety.

The seminar highlights statistics that show that every hour, an average of 11 children are involved in road accidents, and that four of the 11 killed, injured or disabled are children just walking on the road.

The seminar workshop for the teachers will introduce them to road safety teaching modules which they can use to incorporate as part of regular lessons for civics and social subjects. The Early Warning teaching modules were developed with the help of the educators and engineers at the University of the Philippines National Center for Transportation Studies (NCTS).

The teachers will receive complete sets of teaching modules that include teaching aides and other materials.

SPMJ and TMPC are happy to find partners in the AQCHA, the Rotary Club of Neapolitan Fairview and Toyota Commonwealth for its project to bring the Early Warning seminars to more schools in Metro Manila.

The Early Warning seminars dovetail the Rotary Club’s Children’s Awareness of Road Traffic Safety (CARTS), a project aimed to generate road safety awareness among school children and prepare them to be responsible and disciplined road users.

CARTS has scheduled a year-long program of activities which include the monthly "adopt a road safety slogan" and the holding of traffic safety poster making contests in schools and inter-school clubs.

Schools and associations interested in holding or organizing Early Warning Road Safety Seminars can get in touch with the SPMJ secretariat through telephone number 636-5269.