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Rejoice Makoni–Herald Correspondent
The Seke community has welcomed the construction of a junior traffic training centre at Chitsvedembo Primary School with the vision of promoting road safety and instilling a traffic safety mentality in children at a tender age.
The traffic training centre was constructed by the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe to equip school children of Seke District with traffic and road safety measures.
Speaking at the handover ceremony, DC vice chairperson for Chitsvedembo Primary School Ms Rosemary Nyahuye welcomed the development.
“The traffic training centre will help our children to know all the much-needed information concerning road safety.
“A lot of children lose lives to road accident but in most cases it is an issue of lack of knowledge on how to use the road as pedestrians or as cyclists” said Rosemary.
The headmistress of Chitsvedembo Primary School, Ms Judith Mutuda, said the training centre will go a long way in benefiting school children of Seke District.
Our children will learn about how to use the road and road signs. As the School we are going to use it as an income generating project for those who would want to be taken pictures inside the centre, we will charge a small token.
The Deputy Minister of Transport and infrastructural Development Honourable Mike Madiro who handed over the training centre said the commissioning of the centre complemented the President’s mantra of leaving no place and no one behind.
“The development of junior traffic training centres in our country is a way of addressing limitations of leaners with regards to safe participation.
“The objective is to give learners an opportunity to acquire knowledge, practice cycling skills in a safe, stimulated traffic situation and develop positive attitudes towards safe pedestrian behaviour, knowledge of traffic safety rules and road markings,” said the Deputy Minister.
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