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DRIVE RESPONSIBLY
High-tech applications proved very successful in our previous prevention actions. The driving simulator and the alcokart (for road safety) and our websites www.open-youth.org and www.youthforeurope.eu (for information dissemination) added incredible value for increasing the awareness of the young people on different issues. “Drive responsibly” 2010 will build upon that experience and will be aimed at extending our good practice in the mobile phones domain. Based on the Belgium experience, we built a special prevention game to measure the level of alcohol in the blood, according to simple data, entered by the respective user. Using the game helps us increase alcohol abuse prevention of our actions, which will be supported of increased involvement and strong team dimension of newly trained volunteers.
Get involved!
In 2008 “Drive responsibly” was carried out in Vidin, Montana, Vratsa, Sofia and Plovdiv, in 2009 – in Ruse, Veliko Tarnovo, Gabrovo, Sliven and Burgas. In 2010 the campaign will be carried out in five more cities. In each one we will be spending up to three days, using the time to build a local strategy for the events, to train local volunteers for the actions and to carry out the actions themselves. For the action days we will use driving consoles, simulating risky situations on the road. Some of the volunteers will work with visitors. Others will promote the action in the city and will disseminate promotional materials for the project and for the high technologies that we use for prevention.
As usual the citizens will be able to participate free of charge and they will have the opportunity to discuss their experience with the volunteers. The last will also introduce the new feature that we will offer to the public – the mobile phone preventive game which can be used 24/7 risk-free and free of charge for prevention of driving under the influence of alcohol.
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