Safe Schools Africa
Billions of US dollars are invested in road development projects in Africa each year. Yet, despite existing safeguards, roads that fail to meet the minimum 3-star safety standard are still being built. Traditionally, the focus of road engineers in Africa has been on providing for vehicles – even though only a minority of people own […]
Be Road Safe Africa
The Be Road Safe Africa program, a collaboration between Puma Energy and Amend, aims to improve road safety for primary school children across Sub-Saharan Africa. The program focuses on education and community engagement to raise awareness among students, policy makers and the general public about the importance of road traffic injuries as a public health […]
Safe School Infrastructure and 30km/h School Zone Advocacy
Over a three-year period, Amend and FedEx have partnered to implement Amend’s lifesaving School Area Road Safety Assessments and Improvements (SARSAI) program around schools and to advocate for safe 30 km/h school zones in Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, and Zambia. High risk schools in Gaborone, Botswana; Lilongwe, Malawi; Windhoek, Namibia; and Lusaka, Zambia received SARSAI, and […]
Safe school area infrastructure and 30 km/h advocacy in nine countries in Africa
The Puma Energy Foundation, the FIA Foundation, and Amend came together from January 2017 to December 2019 on a project to save children’s lives across nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with safe infrastructure and safe school zone advocacy. The program countries were Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia. During the […]