Eight WVSL drivers trained on Fleet Safety

Given the unique role drivers and fleet across World Vision (WV) partnership play in especially field operations, WV Partnership is seeing the need for fleet safety awareness. As such a Fleet Safety Training of Trainers (TOT) workshop was held in Kono District, Eastern Sierra Leone for eight WVSL drivers (Bala Jawara, Aminata Munu, Ansumana Karimu, Sulaiman Kabba, Joseph Caulkool, Mohamed Sheriff and Ishmael Lamboi) representing all the Bases and the National Office in Freetown.

Other key  and senior staff from Admin/Logistics ( Palmira Cummings, Administration Coordinator and Security Officer, Woodi Samai, Fleet Coordinator and Franklin Koroma, Fleet Supervisor) also participated in this training whose main objectives were:

• to provide trainers with essential training skills and information to be able to conduct driver training
• improve practical FWD driving skills—

The five-day training were in two folds, both theoretical and practical sessions with a focus to equipping trainers on fleet safety and its importance.

Aminata Munu, (the only female driver in World Vision Sierra Leone) is quoted as saying, ''I appreciate the opportunity World Vision gave me to be part of this training. I have never been opportune to be part of a training like the one we had in Kono, where expert on Fleet safety could train us. The training revealed a lot of things we did not know as drivers. I came to  know more about the importance of a seat belt when video was shared that showed how putting on a seat belt protects both drivers and passengers from many dangers.''

The training was facilitated by Popko Kuiper – WVI Global Fleet Safety Manager, Cor Hendriks, Service Provider contracted byWVI from Toyota Gibraltar Stockholdings.                                                                                                    

Fleet is  integral to an organization's overall operation.