A new series of summer trips, “ASIRT Lite”, will debut on Thursday to offer long-term travelers a concept of images, sounds and smells from 3 other destinations, while taking into account the importance of everyone’s road protection culture.
“When you’re heading to any country, learning more about road protection in this country is an integral component of what you want to know,” said Rochelle Sobel, founder of the Association for International Road Safety Transport (ASIRT). His son, Aron, died in a turn of the fate of the bus in Turkey in 1995. He was a twenty-five-year-old medical student who was completing his last rotation as a volunteer at a hospital abroad.
“That’s the message we’re looking to convey, because a lot of other people are investigating everything else, but they’re setting aside road protection,” Sobel said. “Just as you want to know where to eat and what places not to miss, you want to know the country’s road protection. It’s a component of being an informed traveler.”
Travelling on many of the world’s roads can be deadly. Road injuries, not air travel, terrorism, crime or infectious diseases, have long been the biggest killer of healthy Americans abroad, and that doesn’t seem to change. Every year, some 1.35 million other people die in road traffic accidents and up to 50 million more are seriously injured, according to the World Health Organization. Many of these tragedies occur in low- and middle-income countries where Americans travel.
The sessions in Hawaii, Uganda and Kenya will focus on the lighter aspect of food, music, the good herbal appearance of the land, as well as serious problems. The presenters will offer “an unspectred perspective, an exclusive perspective” of their respective region or country, Sobel said.
July 23, 7:30 p.m. EST: Hawaii: Journalist and Debra Bokur will present their recently released debut novel, The Fire Thief, a murder mystery set in Hawaii. The paintings will pave the way for a discussion about Hawaiian culture and food and some of the state’s urgent issues. Ms. Bokur, who travels as a researcher and global editor for ASIRT and as a monthly columnist for Global Traveler magazine, will join James Walker McDaniel, a hospitality professional and musician.
The presentation is an herbal result of Ms. Bokur’s book, and will combine many facets of Hawaiian life, “to move beyond the undeniable look of landscape looks,” Ms. Sobel said, “to teach and count at the same time.
July 30, 7:30 p.m. EST: Uganda – Kimberly Harrington, a U.S. Foreign Service civil servant who has just returned from Uganda, will detail her family’s delight with locals, the culture, the landscape and the express and demanding situations faced by citizens. His most recent position at the U.S. Embassy in Kampala. Previous tasks were in Bogota, Jerusalem, Manila, Cairo, Tripoli and the Pentagon.
“She has painted on road protection in all the countries where she has been assigned,” Sobel said. “We met her when we were making road protective paints in Egypt. It will also tell us about political realities and what it is like to have a circle of family members in Uganda.”
August 6, 7:30 p.m. EST: Kenya – Dr. David Silverstein, a prominent cardiologist who has been a chief cardiothoracic physician to the Kenyan government, and Channa Commanday, a nurse practitioner, Americans who have stayed in an apartment in Kenya, will join through Bright Owaya, ASIRT-Kenya’s Chief Executive Director and advocate for road protection since 1997 when she was concerned about a serious traffic accident. They will communicate about the landscape, life and evidence of life in Kenya.
None of the speakers at the 3 sessions will “provide an excellent picture,” Sobel said. “It will be the complexities, complexities and cultural challenges” of each region. The concept is to motivate and motivate long-term travelers, but to help them travel safely.
People think that roads and driving are the same everywhere, however, there are significant differences. For example, in Hawaii, sudden and sudden storms and flash floods can make driving “terrifying when taken,” Sobel said. And the well-known Hana Highway, also known as Highway 360, has 620 curves and 59 bridges. Many curves are forks, and although the maximum of the road is two lanes, the lanes are so narrow in some sections that they are only suitable for one vehicle, he added.
Typical situations in Uganda come with narrow and old roads, poor vehicles, drivers with poor training and irresponsible driving, such as damaging attempts to overtake other drivers.
Poorly maintained roads and weak signs and signs, in addition to the lack of speed restriction signs, are not unusual in Kenya. To exacerbate these problems, Sobel noted, “there is little application and a sense that legislation will have to be respected.”
Tackling the public fitness crisis in road protection will be less difficult than Covid-19, as there are known interventions, Sobel said. “We know what we’re doing and yet we don’t know it.” But the new series doesn’t live off the inconveniences of global travel. “We don’t stop in a country to see all the negatives. We need other people to appreciate beauty, but they know what they’re getting into, how to protect themselves,” he added.
Ms. Sobel said the ASIRT Lite series provides the same message that the nonprofit does in her knowledge, “but we give it in a more subtle and integrated way.” A tablespoon of sugar is helping the drug pass,” he said. referring to Mary Poppins’ featured song. But the most important thing is: “you will have to know the ways of the country before you leave”.
Listeners will have time to ask questions at the end of the session.
For more information on how to register for one or all sessions, click here and here
Tanya Mohn covers road protection and customer issues for Forbes. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times and has reported for the BBC, NBC News, ABC
Tanya Mohn covers road protection and customer issues for Forbes. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times and has reported for the BBC, NBC News, ABC News, PBS, HBO and CNBC. He recently won a grant from the World Health Organization’s International Centre of Journalists for Security Reporting and an award for his reports on road protection from the Association for International Road Travel Safety (ASIRT). Follow her on Twitter @tanya_mohn.