Keeping children safe on the road
The Safe Travel to School programme is a partnership between Discovery Limited and Childsafe South Africa. The primary vision of this programme is to make South African roads safer for children, especially for those travelling to school every day. We aim to achieve this through improving and increasing road safety knowledge through driver education. We recognise that children, as stated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, have a right to live in a safe environment and be protected from injury. The programme also fits with our Ambition 2023 to create a nation of great drivers.
We are pleased that this flagship project of the Discovery Fund, and which we are passionate about having initiated is showing such great success.
The project was represented on eNCA by Yolande Baker, national executive director of ChildSafe,. In the interview Yolande explains how Discovery Insure’s innovative driver behaviour programme has led the programme to be a resounding success with over 800 drivers now, and transporting about 16,000 school learners daily. This programme has had zero crashes or fatalities since its inception in 2014.
This past Sunday, the Sunday Times carried a profile of the Safe Travel to School as well. The article highlights the success of the programme, through the experience of one of the school transporters and her passengers.
Road safety is a national challenge. The Safe Travel To School programme shows that our award-winning safe driving technology can be used to make all drivers safer on the roads and not just our clients. As such, we would like to invite like-minded corporates to join us in our quest to reduce fatalities on the roads by deploying this programme wider within South Africa. Please get in touch with us if you would like to join with us.
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5 年Please help me.I am a discovery insure policyholder and I have been treated very badly by discovery.I claimed for an accident almost a month ago and Discovery still hasn't fixed my car.When I called, they told me that the car will be fixed and that I should wait.I have paid all my premiums on time and have been with Discovery for almost 2 years.This poor treatment is uncalled for and unprofessional especially for a reputable insurer like Discovery.
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5 年Hi there Anton. Great initiative indeed. How would you feel if you were told that Avis gives your clients defective vehicles? My vehicle went in for repairs at @ Bredren Auto (70 Watt St, Meadowdale )on the 25th of November 2019, my birthday. I wasted most of my day there waiting for a car that my Discovery person ([email protected])never booked for me from Avis. He has not even bothered to offer an apology after I emailed him about this. So back to Avis, what a shocker. I was driving up from Bedfordview back to my offices after dropping my 7 year old and my 13 year old at their respective schools for their last day at school. My chair suddenly lifted and I nearly hit the car next to me when I lost my balance. AVIS/BUDGET Isando. I have nothing but praise for the Manager Robyn Barnes who rushed to replace the vehicle. I am just not very happy with the quality of the vehicle nor Discoveries employee that did not bother to remedy the situation or replying to my email. I am very upset that I had this car and my children were being transported up and down at highway speed. This chair is not the only item that was lose. The bottom seat part in the back was also not clipped in and sliding forward. Saw this after I had my chair suddenly lifting. Had to go over the car with a fine tooth comb. Just wanted to make you aware of this issue. It would do discovery good to be made aware of issues like these.
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5 年Great initiative Anton!