Goals

Problem statement:

Nowadays moving safely in the streets is a great problem for pedestrians in Georgia. This is especially felt on the main roads, where a lot of cars move all day, almost without stopping. We have sad statistics on the number of people who had to sacrifice their lives to this problem.
Due to the scale of the problem, many rallies were held. One of the most positive rallies that caused great response was the idea of painting zebra crossings and many Georgian towns joined this activity. This problem is very prominent is Lagodekhi. There are no traffic lights and the zebra crossings are almost invisible and drivers often break traffic rules towards the pedestrians. Often pedestrians have to wait for quite some time before they can cross the street. This problem is aggravated by our mentality caused by low awareness.

Proposed Solution:

Of course our initiative won’t eliminate this problem completely because our citizens are not very law-abiding. We wish to paint zebra crossing which is situated in Lagodekhi on the main road, this is one of the key crossroads points and during the whole day a lot of cars move in the four directions of the crossroads, and pupils of two schools and a great part of the city population use this zebra crossing. Painting the zebra crossing will further encourage pedestrians to observe traffic safety rules, and for the drivers this will be a colorful message which will remind them once more about their duties to pedestrians.
In parallel with painting zebra crossing, a rally on safe traffic rules will be held. Within the scope of the project information booklets will be printed, that will be given to drivers as well as pedestrians which will raise their awareness to some extent on this issue.

Sustainability:

in case the project is funded the zebra crossings will draw the attention of many drivers and pedestrians for many years in the future, which will lead to safe movement.

Equal gender opportunity:

It is impossible to calculate how gender balance of the beneficiaries of this project will be observed. However we can boldly say that this will be the most gender project that doesn’t focus on any sex and on the contrary, it equally appeals to representatives of both sexes to make movement safe.