2018
March Varsity College PMB “Just Be Responsible” Day
On the 7th of March the SADD team attended the NGO Connex Day at Varsity College, under the theme “Just Be Responsible”.
A “road” was imagined for the students to walk along while using the Drunk Goggles. They then had to catch a set of keys and put them into a container. Kicking a soccer ball also helped to show how impaired you could be after drinking alcohol.
T-shirts, wristbands, Units of Alcohol cards, and info pamphlets were distributed to the students. We had an extremely good response from the students who were queuing up to have a turn at using the goggles. The non-drinkers wanted to know what it felt like to be drunk, and the heavy drinkers wanted to test their “drinking fitness”.
The SADD display table
Students happily displaying their armbands
Global Road Safety Leadership Course March 2018
Caro Smit was very honoured to have been been nominated for the Global Road Safety Leadership Course (GRSLC) that was held from March 04 to 17 in Nairobi, Kenya. This course was co-organized by the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) and the Johns Hopkins University International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU) with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
63 participants from LMIC around the globe attended the training. Caro completed the leadership training on evidence-based best-practices that should be used in road safety.
The trainers on the course were world authorities on road safety and injury prevention such as Adnan Hyder, Abdul Bachani, Margie Peden, Amber Mehmood, Andres Vecino from JHU; Dave Cliff, Judith Fleiter, Blaise Murphet from GRSP; Soames Job from World Bank GRSF; Skye Duncan (from NACTO) Jessica Truong from Global NCAP, amoungst others.
Practical work included a visit to Machacos Hospital, Kenya to inspect Post Crash-Care and data collection; a school road safety interventions site visit to two Primary Schools; group work on evaluating and changing a hazardous location using good urban planning, and an in-depth large large group project that involved evaluating a fictitious countries road crash data and presenting 3 strategic changes that would dramatically improve road safety in that “country” using the training we had been given.
Topics covered included:
The Road safety problem: an overview of the global burden; Leadership visions; Overview of frameworks,concepts & principals; Risk factors – what they are & how to measure them; Data sources- strengths & weaknesses; The role of enforcement; Policy & legislative environment; Principals of behaviour change; Advocacy; Post-crash care, response,data & measurements; Urban design assessments & solutions; Sustainable transport; Safer vehicles-assessments & solutions; Politics,government & persuasion ; Economics & financing; Decision making & resource allocation; Vulnerable road users; etc.
GRSL Kenya Team Photo 2018
Site visit to a primary school
GRS Leadership Certificate
CPUT Cape Town Wellness Day
On the 25th of April the SADD team joined the Student Wellness Centre at CPUT’s Cape Town Campus for a wellness day for the youth. We had a great time teaching all the students about units of alcohol and drinking responsibly.
We even gave some lessons to the nurses and doctors working at the Centre who tried on our Drunk Goggles.
Students who do not drink were able to learn how to educate their drinking friends, and those who do drink learnt about how much alcohol is in each drink. The girls were mostly surprised to learn how many units there are in a Savanna Dry, and the boys were surprised about how many units they were consuming in one night, and how long it would take them to get sober.
Students reading the information in our display
The men competing against each other to see who can put a condom on in the fastest time while using the Drunk Goggles
A young lady who also got a shirt after learning some valuable information about drinking
Varsity College Road Safety Presentation
On the 25th of April, we also attended a Varsity College Road Safety event.
Students learnt about road safety, drink driving, and responsible alcohol use.
February CPUT Wellington Wellness Day
On the 23rd of February, our Strategic Analyst Philli headed out to Wellington to assist with their Wellness Day. The event was well attended by hundreds of CPUT students, who had a wonderful time learning about Units of Alcohol and trying on our “Drunk Goggles”. Sister Tanya was very welcoming, and also enjoyed engaging with our material, which she will help distribute to the students.
Attempting to “sms while under the influence”
A Zero Hero – a non-drinker – with some cool merch
Cheerleaders offering support to the Stall Presenters
Another student attempting to “sms while under the influence”
The CPUT Prof trying our Drunk Goggles
Victim Support
Victims support continues. This also includes doing some protests outside Courts that leads to the media being involved and discussing the crime of drink driving, the rights of victims of drink driving, and the everlasting negative effects on the families left behind.
Carte Blanche TV Show. DUI Film shown on 2nd December 2018. Assisted to get victims (Maharaj sisters & Webb family) filmed & Director gave comments on rights of victims. This show received a special award for the Carte Blanche producer Carol Albertyn.
2018/05/17 Protest Caleb Reddy Court – Johannesburg
2018/06/06 Pic of Court Protest Durban Magistrates Court
Protest SADD and Martyn Webb’s Father. Franschoek Western Cape