Teens teach mates of the same age to adopt a safe behavior on the street and to avoid thus street dangers. The students are organized and helped to give road traffic lessons by the Moldovan-Swiss project REPEMOL and the public association Y-PEER Moldova.

The goal of the activities is for the teens aged 14-18 to be informed from peer to peer about the road traffic rules and why these should be observed daily. In the informative discussions, the adolescents speak about the use of safety bells, child car seats and protection equipment for bicyclists and the observance of road crossing rules and safety of the road from home to school and vice versa.

One of the trainers involved in the project Galina Manole has told IPN that peer-to-peer road traffic lessons are held in over 25 communities of the country. She noted she would like the trained teens to have a responsible behavior and to take correct decisions for their life and safety when they are pedestrians or passengers or ride a bike or on a skateboard.

To transmit road safety messages, the young people staged informal discussions, interactive or role-playing games on road traffic themes and presentations of educative video clips.

From autumn, the peer-to-peer educators will organize contests for the young people to strengthen the accumulated knowledge, drawing contests and social theater. The events are expected to involve 6,000-7,000 students.

All the activities are staged within the campaign “Do you know how to avoid street dangers?” that is carried out by the REPEMOL Project– Regionalization of Pediatric Emergence and Intensive Care Services in Moldova - and the National Patrolling Inspectorate with the financial assistance of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.