You can work on your own, or team up with other local organisations and bodies, to run a range of initiatives. You can use free information and resources from Carry FAb website to help you do this. National road safety agencies, companies and organisations can use the Carry FAb campaign strategies as a springboard to launch their FA programmes.

As an individual, you can begin by signing the Carry FAb petition. Every petition counts as it is expected to build capacity for FA issues especially for the quick implementation of the endorsement of meetings of experts for National FA programmes in all countries of Africa.

 Carry FAb relies on the valuable contribution of volunteers. You can perform a unique and valuable role by building support for Carry FAb initiative in your own community. As a community activist, you can learn and administer FA to people in need, you can help educate local communities; mobilise support for FA; liaise with the media, educators and public officials in communities; and develop projects related to FA. Find out about volunteering opportunities with Carry FAb.

 You make your voice heard by using your voice with the media and elected officials, you can help Carry FAb raise awareness on FA. Visit our Carry FAb advocacy site or send your views by clicking here

-          Your photos and stories can make a difference. We would like to make a request for photos associated with road traffic injuries and first help application at accident spots. We need photos that have an appropriate copyright with permission for Carry FAb to use them free of charge for their advocacy materials. We are specifically looking for photos accident victims, neglected particularly scenes which show a mix of different types of road crashes; road users in need and how their needs are being met or, including different types of emergency response services. Please send your photos to the campaign manager, Carry FAb project.

-          You Tell a Friend! Help us to build a strong road users' movement to support FA by spreading the word about Carry FAb. Spread the word.

-          Partner! Whoever you are, if you want to help, there is a partnership opportunity at PATVORA for you. Please visit become a partner

Become a Corporate Friend

 Working with corporations, Carry FAb intends to make a tremendous impact in promoting FA for road users. Together, we intend to make great strides in improving road safety for road users. Our corporate sponsors can come from any industry, provided they share our vision of making an everyday difference in the lives of road users. Find out how your company can get involved.

Why support Carry FAb

 While the statistics of road accident victims continue to grow and fatalities on the spot of road crashes increase by the day, they don't tell the whole story. The emotional impact of road crash on families, children, employees, friends and consumers is why companies should respond to this important issue of curbing injuries and deaths from lack of first aid administration. Collaboration with Carry FAb is a unique opportunity to not only build goodwill for your company, but to help build your business as well. Each Corporate relationship is a unique opportunity helping Carry FAb reach people, recruit volunteers and raise money. Carry FAb is proud of Corporate Nigeria's support for other killer diseases and we count on their support.

How can my company get involved?

FA banners! Show your employees and local community your support for road safety by sponsoring a giant Carry FAb banner on FA of (5m x 1m). Banners will include your logo and a message chosen by you from a list of options (coming soon). You can display the banner on your own building, or on another prominent local building (such as a university, or town hall), which Carry FAb will arrange. The Carry FAb campaigners can furnish the cost of the banner with a discount for multiple banners and non-commercial organisations.

Work with local schools and universities

Help educate local children and young people by visiting local schools and colleges. If you run a fleet of trucks or buses, you could give a demonstration to young children on the benefits of FA. You could team up with the Carry FAb campaigners to help give a presentation or to run an FA competition. If you or another employee feels they could talk passionately in front of groups of 15-21 year-olds on FA, Carry FAb campaigners can provide you with FREE training on delivering hard-hitting presentations in universities, youth clubs and secondary schools. Click here for more information on this project.

Roadshows

Run a stand or ‘roadshow’ at a local community event or in your town or city centre that complete a theory test. Carry FAb campaigners can provide free FA resources like leaflets for you to hand out – click here for a list of what’s available. For more information on this project, contact Bukky.

Get road safety in the news

Whatever you’re doing, you can promote it by liaising with your local media and issuing a press release stating what you’re doing and what FA is all about. Carry FAb campaigners can help on this if required – email bukkym@carryfab.org

Get the message across to your employees

Carry FAb campaigners is willing to offer highly subsidized training on delivering effective presentations to groups of employees on FA and safe driving. Training takes place around the country throughout the year. All attendees get a FREE DVD on safe driving for work and a range of FREE hand-outs on FA. You can also get a few of your health and safety representatives or fleet managers trained so they can deliver presentations to employees (at your company and/or other local companies) Click here for details of training.

 Carry FAb Bulletins

 Let your employees know the importance of FA and how they can administer or teach others by using or issuing bulletins. Carry FAb can teach you how to use email, messages on payslips and article in staff magazines. Carry FAb can also provide FA branding and information. Email bukkym@carryfab.org

Make the Pledge to Carry FAb

Encourage everyone at your company to make a Pledge to Carry FAb. The campaigners of Carry FAb can provide email bulletins on the Pledge, with a link to Carry FAb website where the Pledge can be signed online click here to see this page) – all you have to do is forward it on! Alternatively, Carry FAb can provide photocopiable, signable flyers to be distributed to drivers click here to download.

Display posters

It’s a quick and easy way of getting involved! Order free or low-cost posters from Carry FAb or your National road safety agency to display in your reception or foyer. click here to see what’s available.

Get the message across to customers, clients and suppliers

If your customers are other businesses…

You could encourage customers to run the initiatives above aimed at getting messages across to employees. For example, Carry FAb can provide an email bulletins about the Pledge to Carry FAb, with a link to a ‘signable’ Pledge form. You could send this to your customers, encouraging them to forward it on to all their employees. If your customers are fleet operators, you could also provide them with information on Carry FAb’s Fleet Safety Forum division, encouraging them to order free resources and sign up to subscription.

If your customers are the general public…

You could include FA messages on customer documents and your website, and set up displays in your stores or outlets. If you offer a service or product that is linked to road safety, you could run a promotion or special offer, such as free first aid training, tyre checks or eye tests, or discounted high-visibility products.

Get your team behind FA

A great way to get your team behind Carry FAb and support FA is to combine educational activities with fundraising in aid of Carry FAb initiative. This helps Carry FAb’s work to prevent or minimise road death and injury on the spot of road crashes. There are endless ways of fundraising, for ideas on fundraising activities, click here.

Donation

If you can spare some money, whatever the sum, it will help support Carry FAb’s work. The money raised by Carry FAb funds research on sensitisation, information programmes and advocacy efforts for millions of road users in communities across Nigeria. Where, the National FA programme has taken off, this initiative is recommended for joint implementation with the country’s national road agency for purpose of enhanced accountability and harmonisation of activities.  If you are ready to support please see donate now

Tell us what you’re doing!

 Whatever you’ve got planned, please drop Carry FAb an email bukkym@carryfab.org To tell us what you’re doing. You may send us photos of your initiative and your comments on how it went. This helps us to get an idea of how many people are promoting FA to share your ideas and achievements with others – we might include pictures and details of your initiative on the Carry FAb website and in its annual report.

How to get a link placed on our site

To get a link placed on our site, please contact us by calling Bukky on bukkym@carryfab.org

YOUR SAY ...

Carry FAb Exchange is a bi monthly knowledge-sharing bulletin for road users in Nigeria. The format alternates between questions/responses and short articles relating to FA and other road rescue issues. Can you add anything from your experience? Do you have any hints and tips to share with other road users? Email exchange@carryfab.org. We welcome your comments and contributions.

For more information on the ideas above, contact Bukky on or bukkym@carryfab.org

Jobs@carryfab!

Carry FAb offers exceptional opportunities for talented individuals who share a commitment to FA or advancing the cause of road safety in Africa. We offer competitive salary and excellent benefits and we welcome your interest in an open position. Please see employment opportunities.