Fund-Raising Campaign For Road Accident Victims Launched | Social

A marketing campaign to solicit funds to help victims of highway accidents has been launched in Accra.
Known as “I Support Accident Victims”, it's an initiative of the Accident Victims Support Ghana Foundation (AVS), a not-for-profit organisation.

The initiative affords the general public, government and personal establishments the chance to help the muse to generate steady income for the marketing campaign.

Funds generated can be used to supply aid for highway crash victims, construct a monument web site for crash victims that obtained burnt past recognition, and to assist the muse's operations equivalent to touring throughout the nation to see victims.

The marketing campaign was launched by the General Overseer of the Global Revival Ministries, Rev. Robert Ampiah Kwofie.

The Founder and President of AVS, Reverend Ciril Crabble, defined that there have been many victims that wanted help, however the basis was unable to cater for all of them.

“I receive a lot of calls from victims, but I'm unable to help because I sometimes do not have what they are asking for. So, we are launching this to expand our scope and introduce the organization to the entire country that we are here, and we've been doing this for a long time,” he stated.

Rev. Crabble stated cash, in addition to restoration aids, weren't the one help a few of these victims wanted, but in addition wanted to really feel cared for, to be recommended, and to really feel compassion.

Support

In a speech learn on his behalf, the Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Attah, stated the ministry continued to strategise to make sure security and safety for all classes of highway customers by incorporating pedestrians security services within the planning, design, development and upkeep of highway infrastructure.

He harassed that highway security was a serious precedence of the highway sector, and that the ministry was collaborating with the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) and the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority to sensitize and educate drivers and highway customers on the protected use of highway infrastructure.

Mr Amoako-Attah disclosed that about 90 per cent of the crashes in Ghana have been attributable to human error as a result of indiscipline of some drivers and bike riders and the disrespect for highway site visitors legal guidelines and rules, with car and highway infrastructure sharing the remaining 10 per hundred.

He defined that statistics indicated that highway site visitors crashes killed about 2,000 individuals and injured about 14,000 folks yearly on common, and that probably the most weak highway consumer teams have been pedestrians who constituted about 40 per cent of fatalities.

Rules, rules

The appearing Director-General of the NRSA, David Adonteng, stated many drivers weren't adhering to highway security protocols.

“They sit behind the steering wheel and discard the law, sometimes overtaking wrongly and drunk-driving, ending up burdening the society,” he stated.

He stated drivers might assist to reduce highway accidents by obeying easy guidelines and rules, a few of which have been sporting seatbelts, avoiding drink-drinking and staying off the highway when drained.

He expressed disappointment that some people videod highway accidents as an alternative of calling for assist.

“In Ghana, if you are not careful, you will bleed and die off. We have a problem that needs to be fixed,” he stated.

Mr Adonteng pledged the preparedness of the government and the Ministry of Transport to help the muse to assist highway accidents victims.