Road of illusions

Gramada

Date: 25 August 2011

Venue: in front of Gramada municipality

Zolder, Belgium

Date: 03 September 2011

Venue: Circuit Zolder

Sofia

Date: 09 September 2011

Venue: in front of Ministry of Health

Help me!

This world needs you,
as I need your hand…
This world loves you,
as I love your soul.
Help me, when I’m alone,
when something worries me,
and I will give you something else,
I will teach you what I know!
Help me when I need you in trouble!
Help me, when it is scary,
and I will free you from another danger!
Here is my hand, let it protect you, so you will not worry.
I give it to you, my powers, my heart…
Lets help each other with whatever is possible…
Lets live holding our hands!

Savina Atansova

Fatal reflections

Fatal Reflections® is a computer-simulated situation of accident, resulting from alcohol abuse.
Young people tend to believe that tragedies due to alcohol and other drug impairment only happen to other people. Fatal Reflections® generates a personalized multimedia presentation in news story format featuring your students. Take digital pictures of participants and assign them roles in a motor vehicle crash or party scene. Fatal Reflections® creates a fast-paced, custom news story that describes an incident involving alcohol and places your students in the middle of the situation. Engage your audience in a meaningful discussion about the very real consequences of alcohol misuse and abuse. Influencing your audience to consider alternative choices to alcohol misuse and abuse begins with engaging them in meaningful discussion about personal responsibility and the consequences of choice.

Road of illusions

Road Safety Institute „Panos Mylonas” – Greece

Objectives:

- To convince, mainly young people, to drive safely without being under the influence of alcohol
- To inform the participants about the results of hyper-consumption of alcohol when they are driving and not only
- To change the mentality of drink and driving

This particular campaign is an awareness campaign for young people and aims not only to inform them to drive safely without the influence of drink but at the same time to participate in an illusion of experiencing influence of alcohol to their health and their lives.
This campaign will take place at a University and also in the central municipal center called Technopolis (from now on be known as exhibition places), since it is for young people.
In the reception of the exhibition place there will be a stand with printed informative material regarding our subject: safe driving without alcohol.
Afterwards the young person will have the possibility to walk on a giant carpet which will be a virtual road with red cones as road obstacles. The volunteer will inform the visitor that this is the safe way to drive, without the influence of alcohol.
Then our volunteer will give the visitor/younger to wear a pair of special glasses called Alcovision goggles which is an awareness tool aiming at sensitizing younger on the effects of alcohol on the vision (balance, reflexes, etc), while the visitor is walking and the volunteer at the same time ask from him/her to imagine that he/she is driving.
It must be mentioned that once you wear the goggles, you are experiencing, how alcohol really affects your vision. Under the influence of alcohol, as your vision changes progressively, you are not aware of this modification.
This tool allows volunteers to dialogue with youngsters about the effects of alcohol on their driving skills (alteration of movement control).
At the end of the activity at the front desk the visitor/participants will have the opportunity to get some information for the basic First Aid by our trained volunteers, in order, for them, to be able to offer help in the case of a car accident.

For the campaign you need: a stand with leaflets and information material regarding safe driving without alcohol; a giant sticker which will be a virtual road with red cones as road obstacles; alcovision goggles.

Condom Race, sensitizing about the effects of alcohol: SIDA STUDI - Spain

Objectives:

-    Sensitizing about the effects of alcohol on driving skills.
-    Sensitizing about the effects of alcohol on condom use.
-    Make free condoms available to everyone who wants.
Alive: Responsible Young Drivers - Luxembourg

Objectives:

- Develop the sense of responsibility regarding risky behaviors
- Increase the awareness regarding the use of prevention tools
- Encourage indirect actors to sensitize their friends, lovers… to take up a responsible attitude on the road as in their relationship.
Come and take it: Avenir Santé - France

The objective of the project is to reduce, among youngsters in recreational settings, drug consumptions which can also have bad consequences on driving capacities.
Drive responsibly: Open Youth - Bulgaria

Objectives:

-    to reduce the road accidents, caused by young people;
-    to improve the driving habits of the young drivers;
-    to reach directly a large number of young people through positive peer-to-peer communication and attractive tools.