Provincial Youth Union in collaboration with provincial Traffic Safety Committee has just launched the 2013 Traffic Safety Month and the Young Workers Festive Day with Traffic Culture with the theme of “Raising awareness, responsibility of traffic participants”. The events aim to call for the local youth to join hands to build up a traffic safe and civilized environment.
According to
statistics, Binh Duong is now home to around 800,000 immigrant laborers. This
is a great resource to promote the local comprehensive development. But, they
also bring many corollaries on social safety and order, especially traffic
disorder. 
A booth exchanging high-quality helmets with subsidized price of VND65,000 per unit for young workers
Binh Duong now controls over 800,000 motorbikes and around 600,000 turns of automobiles going through the local streets annually. In the first half of the year, there were 80% of traffic accidents in the province caused by young workers. Hence, the 2013 Traffic Safety Month and the Young Workers Festive Day with Traffic Culture launched by provincial Youth Union aim to raise awareness of young people in traffic safety and call for them to join hands to build up a traffic safe and civilized environment.
With the above significance, more than 500 Youth Union members and young workers, on August 4, gathered in the Song Than Industrial Park in Di An town to participate in a traffic safety program with many practical activities in response to the 2013 Traffic Safety Month, including a driving contest, art performances on traffic safety…Do Thi Hien, a worker of C.M.C Garment Co. said that the program not only helped young workers widen their knowledge about traffic safety, but also created an opportunity for them to take part in a driving contest and exchange their helmets for high-quality ones.
Duong Thi Ngoc Yen, a Youth Union member of Di An ward’s Youth Union in Di An town said: “Traffic disorder in the country in general and in Binh Duong in particular is still very serious, leading to heart-breaking consequences. In response to the 2013 Traffic Safety Month, I will keep traffic safety while mobilizing my relatives and friends to raise their awareness of traffic safety…”.
In a bid to raise young people’s awareness of traffic safety, Di An town’s volunteer squad on traffic safety has been set up. The volunteer squad is responsible for making dissemination of information about traffic safety in densely-populated areas and at lodging facilities across the town.
According to Pham Hong Thang, Vice-Secretary of provincial Youth Union, along with the efforts by authorities at all levels, provincial Youth Union and its affiliates need to further speed up education and propaganda of traffic safety among the local youth. The implementation of the 2013 Traffic Safety Month and Young Worker Festive Day with Traffic Culture is of great significance for the local youth, contributing to raising their awareness of traffic safety.
Reported by Thanh Le-Translated by K.T
