Due to the increase of the death toll due to road traffic injuries in lebanon, YASA Lebanon is widening its efforts that started in August 1994, after the death of Tarek Assi, to raise public awareness and to improve legislation about road safety promotion and injury prevention.
All who consider safety as a basic human right are invited to join YASA Lebanon group and invite their friends, and to visit regularly www.yasa.org
Your remarks are highly valubale for the success of our mission.
For those, who are willing to support our mission in different low-income countries, please join yasa international group (yasa.org) on the facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2494716734
The tragic death by a traffic crash ( Saghbine-Bekaa) of Tarek Assi, a 19 year-old university student, led his friends to establish a club for his memory. After the death of Andre Akl (21 year-old), in another traffic crash in Barbara road, the youth club in the university was officially registered as the Youth Association for Social Awareness (YASA) – a not for profit non governmental organization – in Lebanon in 1996.
YASA’s major fields of interest include but are not limited to:
Children safety
Safety inside cars
Pedestrian safety
Road maintenance
Alcohol abuse
Motorcycle safety
Driving license reform
Traffic law enforcement
Emergency systems
Truck safety
Driver Improvement Program ( Bus, Forklift, heavy vehicles, motorcycles...).
Each year, YASA Lebanon organizes thousands of interviews and reports on Television, radio, and press, promotional video clips for TV, brochures, school competitions, lectures for the army, university studies, simulations with Civil Defense and Lebanese Red Cross, conferences with municipalities, and training sessions for drivers of companies, schools and others. YASA is very active in promoting awareness at the government and the citizen level and works closely with media institutions, education agencies (particularly private schools), and companies in the private sector to develop and run road safety programs. Many of these are educational but YASA has also been involved in promoting better safety at road construction zones. It has also organized national and regional road safety seminars with the aim of drawing up prioritized recommendations for improvement.
Since 1999, YASA has also participated in more than 550 conferences about safety promotion that were given to different groups of the Lebanese Army among which are: trainees in the military school, new officers, and military service attendees. YASA has reached more than 110,000 members of the Lebanese Army.
Moreover, since January 2000, YASA has participated in more than 260 conferences about safety promotion for the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF); attendees were from trainees in the military school, new members, and officers.
Ever since the first national conference in October 1998, YASA has received distinguished guests who are experts in Safety Promotion from around 50 countries.
YASA also organized and participated in a series of visits to the leaders of public and private organizations concerned with road safety in many Arab countries such as: Algeria, Jordan, Qatar, Morocco, Tunisia and Syria.
Since April 1997, YASA Lebanon prepared and distributed around 10.5 million fully colored printed materials which include: 80 leaflets, 10 competitions, 15 Awards and 31 posters. The distribution was to participants in safety promotion interventions in most educational institutions working in Lebanon, UAE and in neighboring countries.
Since 2003, YASA has many joint activities with the World Health Organization office in Beirut.
Year after year YASA does thousands of activties around Lebanon and many other countries to promote public safety and road safety.
YASA Lebanon works in Beirut, the Bekaa region (Baalbeck- Hermel, Zahle, West Bekaa-Rachayya)
South Lebanon (Saida,Marjeyoun-Bent Jbeil- Nabatie-Sour -Zahrani), North Lebanon (Tripoli,Zgharta,Akkar -Danaye,Batroun-Koura-Becharre), Mount Lebanon (Chouf,Baabda and Aley casas, Metn, Kesrwan and Jbeil Casas).
إن تجمع الشباب للتوعية الإجتماعية -"يازا"هو تجمع أهلي تأسس اثر وفاة الشاب طارق عاصي، إبن التاسعة عشرة من العمر، في حادث سيارة مؤسف في اب 1994.
تهدف اليازا الى تأمين وتطوير السلامة العامة والى تلافي الحوادث والاصابات الناتجة عنها وذلك عن طريق توعية المجتمع المدني ونشر المعرفة بين أفراده ومؤسساته.
منذ تأسيسها في لبنان، بنت اليازا في لبنان تعاون وشراكات مع مؤسسات وهيئات محلية أهلية وحكومية كالجيش اللبناني، قوى الأمن الداخلي، الدفاع المدني،الصليب الأحمر اللبناني
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