African nonprofit is making the walk to school dramatically safer for students

A girl crosses the street in Dar es Salaam.
(Image credit: Kyle Laferriere/WRI)

Due to a lack of traffic lights, signs, and sidewalks in neighborhoods across Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the streets can be dangerous for anyone on foot.

Children are especially vulnerable; the World Health Organization reports that kids in sub-Saharan Africa are more than twice as likely to die in a road accident than anywhere else. The nonprofit SARSAI aims to change this by finding schools with the highest rates of death and injuries, and then improving road conditions in the area. This includes installing speed bumps, crosswalks, and traffic signs, with educators also going into the schools to teach kids about street safety. In Dar es Salaam, 38,000 students so far have benefited from SARSAI's work.

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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.