- 44 organisations from all corners of Mexico registered for the first edition of the award.
- The 3 winning projects will benefit communities in Puebla, Guadalajara, and Monterrey.
- The winning initiatives have a total of 1,500,000 pesos to materialise their initiatives.
Mexico City, 8 November 2023. In an effort to strengthen road safety in Mexico and recognise civil society as an engine for change, Fundación Aleatica has announced the three winners of the first Road Safety We Are All Award.
The prize, which awarded grants of up to $1,500,000 pesos encourages the work of civil society organisations that seek, like Fundación Aleatica, to promote the right to mobility in safe road conditions as a reality for all people and to contribute to cultural change in road safety.
In this first edition, 44 organisations registered, each with activities in the design, implementation and operation of projects that contribute to the improvement of road safety in three categories: safe infrastructure, safe vehicles and safe mobility users. As a result of the selection process, seven finalist projects were identified: two projects in the safe infrastructure category and five projects in the safe mobility users category.
With the support of experts who participated as members of the judging panel, including Edgar Zamora, Regional Leader of Safer Journeys at iRAP; Fernando Cammarota, CEO of CEPA; Rocio Citlalli Espinoza Morquecho Director of Research and Road Culture of the Secretary of Transport of the Government of the State of Jalisco and Francisco de Anda Orellana Transport Advisor and Rubén Aranda Rodríguez, Global Director of Safety at Aleatica identified the projects with the highest scores in their evaluation and based on this, 3 different winners were defined:
In the category of safe infrastructure, the winning project was “Spaces of Peace and Dignity”, presented by the organisation Da Tartuk Impacto Social A.C. This project focuses on interventions to improve road infrastructure and ensure universal accessibility at the España Light Railway Station, located in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, Jalisco.
The donation provided by the Aleatica Foundation will allow the installation of two ramps, the implementation of two awareness campaigns on the right to the city, workshops within the neighbourhood and school community on urban mobility and the right to the city, as well as the maintenance of road signs (vertical and horizontal). It is estimated that this public space intervention will particularly benefit more than 2,700 children with disabilities and their caregivers, who travel by light rail to receive care at the Teleton Children’s Rehabilitation and Inclusion Centre (CRIT), which is located very close to the España Station, and in general will benefit some 50,000 people who use public transport on a daily basis.
In the category of Safe Mobility Users, two winners were identified. The first winner was the organisation “Cinco panes y dos peces A.C.” with the project “Sumando Voluntades por la Vida y la Seguridad Vial” (Adding Wills for Life and Road Safety). This project seeks to reduce fatalities caused by traffic accidents, medical emergencies and natural disasters in the vulnerable municipalities of Chignahuapan, Aquixtla and Cuautempan in the Sierra Norte region of Puebla.
The donation will be used to train 46 volunteers from the Comisión Nacional de Emergencias Delegación Chignahuapan to become certified as technicians in road safety, community health and civil protection. They will also provide professional assistance in various emergency situations, such as road accidents, fires, floods, lightning and hurricane winds, among others; and will be responsible for giving talks and workshops to more than 1,500 students between the ages of 6 and 18, from seven schools in the region. The indirect beneficiaries are 72,267 inhabitants of the 3 municipalities that are part of the project.
The second winning project in the category of safe mobility users was “Safe School Zone” from the MOVAC organisation. This project aims to promote road safety in school environments in two municipalities of Nuevo Leon, to ensure safe transportation of children and adolescents in public space, through actions in three areas: public policy, infrastructure and education.
The donation will be used by MOVAC to develop training materials that will be incorporated into a MOOC (massive online courses) for teachers, on the MexicoX platform, as well as to ensure the sufficiency of teaching materials to carry out theoretical and practical workshops for road safety promoters, guidance for teachers, events to promote road safety and sustainable mobility, and to carry out extracurricular activities in school areas, such as walks, underground rides, talks with traffic police, among others.
