Estonian Scout Association (ESA) is an NGO, founded in 1995, member of the
World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM) since 1996. Our primary goal is to, through the scouting method, teach differs from the primary education by its emphasis on practical skills and variability, making it an informal form of education. At present there are two full time employees, Head of Bureau and Assistant of Bureau. The national Board members and all scout leaders are volunteers. The association has 1276 members and 120 voluntary scoutleaders.

Our organization’s activity is based on voluntary work with youth in age 6 to 26, who we would like to act safely in traffic themselves and also to be a good example to other people by passing on their knowledge to their families, friends and coevals at school. Our action will be targeted to 1200 people.
We carry out an activity program which is based on learning by doing method, with the purpose to educate youth in various fields, including also topics about the traffic, e.g. extract of learning program for younger age group: know the traffic rules, five main traffic signs for pedestrians and ten main traffic signs for drivers and bikers, tell about the safety rules for bikers (helmet wearing etc), perform the biker’s driving exam, know how to act in case of emergency and how to give the first aid.
We also organise special camps in co-operation with police and paramedics to do the practical exercises on accident prevention and know the ways to act in case of an emergency.
In the pipeline we plan to create the tutorial handbook for scout leaders, where is expanded upon also the traffic topics based on our learning and activity program. Leaders will also touch the topic in scouting gatherings with children and also by doing co-operation in local level with the youth police.
 
Commitment duration: 2009-2011

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