WHO WE ARE
Why Join NASAPAL
EXTENDED SUPPORT:
In the event we are opportune with assistance to grow our vision to cover the entire Country faster than we envisage, we would forever remain grateful to our future partners and supporters while we encourage our members to develop a sense of ownership by supporting the programs of NASAPAL which are all geared towards our community’s development and appreciation.
OUR EXPECTATION:
Our expectations are to appreciate ourselves by adopting international best practices, instituting accountability and transparency, embracing technology, and providing standard facilities and systems to educate our communities to encourage more hands-on deck.
We endeavor to remain focused on appreciating ourselves and our friends that appreciate us by deeds to motivate others to follow.
Our overall expectation is to make our environment acceptable for short- and long-term accommodation!
Values
OUR COMMITMENT:
We are forever resolute in our commitment to growing leaders, by sharing the opportunity of exposing our future leaders to acquiring knowledge more than we have locally and internationally done.
OUR VIEWPOINT
We do not want to be the one-eye man in our village, many of us can make our village a Global City!
Our Full Background
There are numerous reasons why in 2013 the
NATIONAL SAFETY PARTNERSHIP OF LIBERIA, NASAPAL INC, formerly WoGeS VEHICLE AND MOTORCYCLE SAFETY TRAINING SERVICES, aka was incorporated, considering the developed world, and Liberia after its fourteen (14) years of a brutal civil war. The Government intending speedy development embraced a “PUBLIC, PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP, PPP” environment, most on-deck personnel were not on pal, so the achievement of such vision remained confronted. See our effort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9RjQu9cTeY&t=53s
The value for life and property in Liberia has and continued to be a challenge, the task remains at hand, the solution to rebuilding is the responsibility of the people and Government, considering this fact, the vision to intervene into one of the most challenged pillars, the YOUTHS as evident in any successful nation remained condemned by the condition of disability and early deaths by a preventable warlord.
The apparatus for PUBLIC SAFETY was challenged equally as the entire infrastructures of the nation, rebuilding cannot be fast track depending on any available Government of any time, from this mindset, came the genesis of NASAPAL INC.
Woods General Services, WoGeS was envisioned in 2007 from the private sector angle to help any Government with the provision of basic social services and jobs creation for the vulnerable youths and the retired/Veterans Police/Security sector forming a means to transfer knowledge acquired from public services and bilateral training received from friendly Governments and private companies.
Liberia returned to normalcy came with lots of new ways of Life, all roads’ infrastructures were inactive, dishes, cars taking weeks to cover less than 100 miles from one point to another, women giving birth while en route to medical facilities, etc. Chinses made scooters/motorcycles begin to surface on the local market, families that could afford would purchase same because of its affordable cost between $1,000,00 to $1,500.00 for their teen kids to rent to other kids that had never had the experience of riding a bicycle or scooter before due to the long state of the civil war for a short ride. During those times, the fatalities were not recorded, many got youths got injured, some died from the mishap of no experience to safely operate a motor speed of 100 cc horsepower, those incidents were not noticed, by 2007, the art of using those cycles for commercial purpose like in Mali, Togo, Nigeria, etc got popular, with about six deaths daily around the nation according to the Police authority See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ1mWmWtXoo
WoGeS was endorsed by Government in May 2008, commenced its survey of the ROAD TRAFFIC SAFETY SECTOR, got encouraged to remain on path with its intervention by few leaders from Government, Non-Governmental and the private sector, more honorably the United States of America (US) Embassy accredited near the Liberian capital, Monrovia.
The challenges identified during our provisional survey within ten (10) of Liberia fifteen (15) Counties, Margibi, Grand Bassa, Sinoe, Lofa, Nimba, Grand Gedeh, Gbarpolu, Bomi, Grand Cape Mount, Rivercess, and Montserrado between 2007 to 2010 are as followed:
- Over 90% of vehicle drivers (Car, Bi, and motorcycle) in Liberia are SELF TAUGHT.
- Over 95% of ROAD USERS have less knowledge of their RESPONSIBILITY as DRIVERS and PEDESTRIANS.
- Over 90% of VEHICLE DRIVERS are not well-informed of the Government Road policy and the RULES of the ROAD due to the lack of information dissemination.
- Over 85% of ROAD USERS have little or no idea of the importance and workings of insurance
- The Government has no proper record system of road incidents and data of available vehicles (Cars and Motorcycles) in the Country.
- All vehicle DRIVERS training entities in Liberia have a separate curriculum.
- Many Road Users, young citizens are ignorant of the duty and function of the Police because of the ways they conduct themselves and perform their duties.
- Road Users, street peddlers were found very abusive of public facilities and disrespectful of public polices enforcers.
- Public service officials were noticed as very disrespectful in the discharge of their duty, creating room for reactions detrimental harmony.
OUR RECOMMENDATIONS are as follows.
- That the GOL enact and enforce legislation to safe guide all road users
- That the GOL approved a standard curriculum for road users and ensured proper dissemination.
- That the GOL provides the required logistic for its functionaries to enhance efficiency
- That Insurance entity advertises their businesses and organizes a seminar to reach out.
- That the GOL ensure all vehicle operators acquired at least 36 hours of road safety training in line with international standards.
- That road safety is taught in academic institutions to help alleviate road fatalities.
- That the Government of Liberia double and triple senior and junior Police Officers salaries to discourage them from selling themselves cheaply, those found in malpractices be disrobed from the service, to give way to more integrity personnel.
- Public Safety and City ordinances are taught in all schools and public places for all to be aware of their responsibility in keeping their environment safe.
- That municipal education is taught, the duty and function of Government officers, from bottom to top be taught so the public can respect Law and Order.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS:
Because of the lack of information dissemination (EDUCATION) the people are always at the edge for violence, bearing in mind with money, they can buy their way out.
MOVING FORWARD
The gravity of our findings which remain a challenge to our nation PEACE, STABILITY, and GROWTH, we got more encouraged to research for some solutions globally, considering Liberia ties with the USA, most especially discovering Liberia Vehicle and Traffic laws been a 1972 photocopy of a State of the United States of America, USA, we got compared to transition to the United States of America in 2010 to solicit transferable knowledge and partnership from every available opportunity.
With it been a fact that too many years has come and gone, while Liberia continued to lose valuable lives and properties, NASAPAL has fashioned most of its borrowed knowledge to accommodate the vulnerable youths and early retired security, health care, and public administrators with good morals to be refreshed by our overseas partners through a Trainer of Trainers, TOT program to train the local leadership of NASAPAL INC to achieve its needed result as a help to provide a safer environment for National Government and visitors to Liberia through the various services or programs that are crafted to be sustained by our membership support largely.:
EXTENDED SUPPORT:
In the event we are opportune with assistance to grow our vision to cover the entire country faster than we envisage, we would forever remain grateful to our future partners and supporters while we encourage our members to develop a sense of ownership by supporting the programs of NASAPAL which are all geared towards our community’s development and appreciation.
OUR EXPECTATION:
Our expectations are to appreciate ourselves by adopting international best practices, instituting accountability and transparency, embracing technology, and providing standard facilities and systems to educate our communities to encourage more hands-on deck.
We endeavor to remain focus on appreciating ourselves and our friends that appreciate us by deeds to motivate others to follow.
Our overall expectation is to make our environment acceptable for short- and long-term accommodation!
OUR COMMITMENT:
We are forever resolute in our commitment to growing leaders, by sharing the opportunity of exposing our future leaders to acquiring knowledge more than we have locally and internationally done.
OUR VIEWPOINT
We do not want to be the one-eye man in our village, many of us can make our village a Global City!
MOTORCYCLISTS RESTRICTION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fypKOxDzUpw
MOTORCYCLISTS RESPONSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mPx7jALB6c
ROAD ACCIDENTS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOcwp3LBiSw
NASAPAL INC SELF INITIATIVE
Considering all the challenges identified in the road safety sector of Liberia, been aware of the National Government position on resolving these issues in the now factor, NASAPAL Inc nonpartisan 501 © 3 organization travel far and near to adopt international best practices, overwhelmingly selected and adopted the United States of America safety culture because there where our current 1972 vehicle and traffic regulations is copied from, making our intervention simple to translate to the public.
The below listed programs are crafted to fit the Liberian public as both the USA and Liberia share similar jurisdiction polices. The programs are as follow (to read on our programs just chick on the name) :
1. The Alliance of Bikers Aimed Toward Education, (A.B.A.T.E) of Liberia
2. The Play and Learn Popcorn for Education Program
3. The Vote Like-A-Motorcycle
4. The Sgt Alfred Nayou Boley Safe Crossing Guard Program
5. Charles Umbenhauer Soccer Club, aka, Charlie Bikers SC
6. The Accident Scene Management, (ASM Liberia)
7. The Operation Save -A- Life (OSAL Liberia)
8. The Hilton Saye Gwaikolo, HSG Road Victims Advocacy of Liberia
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
MOTORCYCLISTS RESTRICTION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fypKOxDzUpw
MOTORCYCLISTS RESPONSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mPx7jALB6c
ROAD ACCIDENTS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOcwp3LBiSw