NRMA helps Chinese and Arabic speaking parents

Ryde-based non-profit organisation, Youthsafe, was today awarded a $5,000 NRMA Motoring & Services´ Community Grant to promote road safety through local Chinese and Arabic speaking communities.

Youthsafe will provide road safety information booklets in Chinese and Arabic to parents so that they can help their children who are going for their licence.
 
NRMA Director, Richard Talbot, congratulated Youthsafe for making road safety a priority in multicultural communities and praised the innovative Chinese and Arabic Road Safety Campaign.

?We want to lower the risk of younger driver accidents and help non-English speaking parents guide their children through the NSW licensing process,? Mr Talbot said.

?Chinese and Arabic speaking parents of learner drivers in the local community need more access to road safety information so they can help their children stay safe behind the wheel.
 ?It is a well known fact that younger drivers are at higher risk of being involved in an accident which makes projects like this so important.
?More printed road safety information is definitely needed for Chinese and Arabic speaking parents who cannot read English.

?NRMA is proud to support such a worthwhile initiative that has such a positive benefit for the local community.?

Working with Parents for Safer Young Drivers is just one of the programs NRMA is supporting through its Road Safety Community Grants to local community groups and councils across NSW and the ACT.

?The NRMA Community Grants give local neighborhoods an opportunity to develop solutions to road safety problems that are important to them,? Mr Talbot said.

This year NRMA has awarded nearly $100,000 worth of road safety grants to 23 community groups and councils throughout NSW.

All applications received were assessed by a panel of representatives including local government and community groups.