CEAT presents road safety kits to 10 more schools

CEAT Kelani Holdings has extended the company’s road safety programme for school children to its 15th year, with the donation of road safety kits to 10 more schools in the first three months of 2024.

Each of the beneficiary schools received seven road safety signboards, 10 traffic cones, 10 traffic warden jackets and 300 booklets on road safety awareness for school children, making up a total of 3,270 items for the 10 schools.

The 10 schools that benefitted from the latest round of donations were Hemamali Girls’ College – Kandy, Badulla Madya Maha Vidyalaya, Kithalagama East Kanishta Vidyalaya– Thihagoda, Mundalama Sinhala Maha Vidyalaya – Puttalam, Kirillawala Central College, Sangilikanadarawa Maha Vidiyalaya – Medawachchiya, Maliyadeva College – Kurunegala, Walasmulla National School, Ashoka College – Horana and Sri Parakrama Maha Vidyalaya – Panagoda.

CEAT’s ‘Maga Yana Maga’ programme commenced in 2010. In its original phase, the programme directly engaged with students, parents and transport providers, principally school van drivers, via road safety workshops, and was coupled with the donation of traffic management kits comprising traffic cones, safety jackets, traffic signs and other aids to the traffic squads in each of the schools visited. An equipment donation model was adopted after a short hiatus necessitated by the global pandemic.