By TDN
North West-Eighty learners from high schools across the North West province are to participate in the Annual Provincial Participatory Education Technique (PET) programme contest to showcase solutions to road safety challenges in their communities.
The main objective of the PET is to encourage learners to identify road safety related problems affecting their communities and to finding solutions by way of research hereby empowering them with a hands on opportunity to solve their community road safety problems.
“The programme in its fifth year is led by the Road Safety Directorate within the Public Safety Branch of the department and implemented in partnership with the Department of Education and local municipalities” departmental spokesperson Ben Bole said.
He said the competition will further contribute towards the 2011-2020 decade of action campaign.
Research workshops were conducted by the Road Safety Officers in the past months to empower participating school teams, who are to be adjudicated on models and presentations illustrating their community road safety problem and researched solutions.
The event will be held as follows:
Time: 08H00 am
Date: 20 September 2013
Venue: Rio hotel in Klerksdorp/Matlosane-TDN
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