Week 6 assignment by “Babar Maqbool Khan” Faisal Public School. Multan. Pakistan

Social Entrepreneurship

Today I have a lesson “Road Safety and Traffic Education” Dear students, it is sad fact of the modern life that in our big cities, thousands of men, women and children die every year in road accidents. And the number of those who are injured is great. Some, after medical treatment recover but many are crippled for life. Most of the roadside accidents occur either because of the ignorance of traffic rules or inability to read and follow the road signs or out of the sheer carelessness of the road users. Traffic rules apply to everybody who is on the road either as a motor driver or as a pedestrian. Our actions and those of others on the road are responsible for our health and our life. I also used I.C.T tools to tell the learners about the importance of traffic rules.

The best way to engage learners is by injecting fun into learning. SO, I decided for the awareness of traffic rules to learners, we and give them one

task. For the junior group, they will clean the roads. Primary group will make zebra crossing in school ground. The middle group of learners will make sign charts. Secondary group of learners will make traffic rules pamphlet, which they distribute them among the people. The management of Faisal Public School and I invited a traffic instructor for learners who educate them clearly about the traffic education and road safety.

After one week, traffic instructor came in our school. All the groups of learners came with full of preparation and excitement. All the learners gathered in school lawn.

First of all traffic instructor gave them lecture about rules and then middle group of learners came with their different sign charts. The traffic instructor appreciates their work and explains these sign charts to other learners.

The secondary group of learners came with their pamphlet. Instructor read the rules and explains them.

He also told the learners about the importance of helmet. Instructor shows his traffic hand signs.

Then the traffic instructor went to play ground of school where the primary group of learners made zebra crossing. He also walked on the zebra crossing to tell them how they will use it.

The junior section made a team and their target is to clean the roads.

Then learners with traffic instructor and their teacher Babar Maqbool Khan went to the G.T road of Multan in school van.

The sun was shining and its heat was on peak. The temperature was 50c approx. In spite of one of the hottest day of summer, the learners were much

excited and motivated on the road. The traffic instructor told them how they would walk on the road.

The junior team and I collect the waste materials from the road. And also request the people who were walking on the road that they should keep clean their roads.

The other group of learners shows their sign charts to drivers and explains them.

The group of learners also distributed their pamphlet to aware the people about the traffic rules. The people who were on the road much surprised and appreciate the learner’s work. They promised that they would obey the traffic rules. A man on the road said, “If we had more traffic sense, all of us would be much safer on the road.”

All the learners decided that they would always obey the traffic rules and also educate the other people who are living around them. Because they want to avoid road accidents and keep save to their society.

In Pakistan road accidents are always a human tragedy. But the tragedy is greatest when children are involved. Road traffic accidents push many families more deeply into poverty by the loss of their breadwinners. If we have traffic rules awareness, then accidents can be avoided, lives can be saved and injuries can be avoided. Through this activity, I think new generation can play an important role in society. They are finding new ways to bring change in society. It is a really a good work and new idea to literate the people. The people who are interested but do not have time through this literacy can reach to people.

I also observed that this is social entrepreneurship. Because social entrepreneur is some one who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create and manage a venture to make social change. Unlike a business entrepreneur who typically measures performance in profit and return, a social entrepreneur assesses success in terms of the impact on society.

But social entrepreneurs are often non-profits. Social enterprises are for “more – than – profit”.

Text and pictures: Teacher Babar Maqbool Khan, Faisal Public School, fifth class Multan in Pakistan