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In the occasion of the World
Health Day WHD. (WHD is an annual World Health Organization
WHO event celebrated on 7 April), this year WHO, devoted a
WHD specifically to Road Safety. So RESC celebrated this
occasion and performed many activates. WHD activities were
carried at a school in Ramallah area, different techniques
were used to increase the children awareness about Road
Safety, like drawings, lectures, play, and many other
activities, these school activities were to increase the
children awareness in the following fields:
· The most common road safety
issues affecting schools.
· How to get assistance.
· Traffic signals on all roads.
· School crossing supervisors
on roads.
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PENGON membership(
Palestinian Environmental NGO's Network):
"RESC" Roads and
Environment Safety Center is considered one of the
establishing organizations for the Palestinian Environmental
Non Governmental Organizations Network PENGON, which
gathers most of the Palestinian NGO's that works in the
environmental sector.
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Membership in the
Committee of the Supervision on the Elections:
"RESC" is considered an
active organization in the committee that will organize and
supervise on the Palestinian local, legislative and
presidential elections, furthermore "RESC" is a member in
the minimized election supervision council in Ramallah
governorate.
- UNV (
United Nation Volunteer ) program
"RESC" perform many voluntary
activities such as, provision of educational sessions
related to traffic awareness in many schools, organizing
summer camps, preparing educational materials to increase
the awareness toward roads
and environment safety. this leads to assigning one of RESC
members in the UNV-program for 6 months.
since the establishment of ;"RESC",
priority has been given to the training activities, 4
training programs were accomplished:
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Training Courses in
"minimizing the air pollution", two courses were
implemented targeting the employees of the, Ministry of
Transpirations, Municipalities, Ministry of Local
Governance, Traffic Police.
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RESC" performed four
workshops of one day each for the local community
regarding "Waste Tires Reuse in Playing Playground".
These workshops aimed to increase the public awareness
about the environmental damages resulting from
accumulated waste tyres. These workshops also helped in
achieving the project goals and objectives and
highlighted the idea of tyre reuse. In addition, through
these workshops the people learned how to sustain and
develop the constructed playground.
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workshop was
implemented in cooperation with the Palestinian
Hydrology Group (PHG), this workshop targeted the women
at Bani Zeid area, the main topic of this workshop was
"Environmental Awareness and Community Development".
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two training courses
aimed to qualify supervisors for the summer camps
implemented in 20003/2004.
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