Some time ago we were talking about Circulando, a road safety portal for families, which emerged from an educational program with the aim of educating and sensitizing families and educators in the main road safety regulations. Of the experience The "Zebra Reports", books with information collected by children about road safety, were born.
The “Zebra Agents” are the children in charge of collecting the information, they received tests that they had to answer (in the form of a test) or perform (road inventions, denunciation photos, advice…), with the help and involvement of their families. In total, more than 2,000 families participated periodically to prepare the first and second reports.
In the first report, the contributions of the Zebra Agents are collected and organized around the 10 fundamental rights of Children. It also includes the proposals made by the little ones to improve the road safety of their environments.
The report is structured in the following sections:
- Road education: a collective responsibility.
- The Zebra Agents: the voice of children
- Why a Zebra Report?
- Put on a 10! The rights of children
- How it was made?
- Participants
At “Second Zebra Report: Atlas of family mobility. The road reality in Spain seen by children ” Zebra Agents and their families again think, participate and tell us their road concerns. In this book, the different phases of the preparation and implementation of a trip and the degree of participation of minors in it are collected.
An exhaustive sociological report with data on the attitudes, fears, desires and feelings of children and their families before travel. All exposed through the real and imaginary missions created by zebra agents and their families in an exercise of participation and commitment.
This second book has recently been presented by Iñaki Gabilondo, journalist and Medal of Merit of Road Safety of the Ministry of Interior and 3 children Agents Zebra, representing all members of Club Zebra.
Recall that these reports are part of an initiative that launched the Road Safety Institute of the Mapfre Foundation: "Circulating. Educating in values for road safety ”.
I have tried to know how the reports can be obtained, since from the Mapfre website they point out that in order to get this material you have to contact them through their electronic mailbox, but I have not received a response.
Too bad, because I would have liked to consult these first-hand "Zebra Reports" in which children are the agents that monitor, warn and give new ideas about road safety. I am sure they have a lot to teach the elders.
