2019

Pigman Invites Everyone Interested to the “One Day for Safety” Event

The colourful and carefree summer is over, so it is especially important to think about day-to-day safety when children return to cities and schools. No less important is taking care of your surroundings and not litter in forest or in the school yard. Pigman (Cūkmens), the patron of clean forests and the discoverer of the dirty secrets of the forest, will remind it all to the participants of the “One Day for Safety” event, which is to take place in the film city Cinevilla in Tukums Municipality on 19 September.

“I once participated in the creation of Cinevilla, and I have a special return here. I am delighted to reach out to children right here, because it is home to beautiful memories and the opportunity to see with my own eyes what is shown in films. Together with children, we will discuss the precautions to be taken when going out in nature and, of course, remember that we live in an environment that we create ourselves. We will play a fun game called bottle-ball that teaches where empty bottles should be, that is, in a bag rather than on the roadside. If we leave that bottle in forest today, then in the future we will go to the forest not to pick up mushrooms, but to pick up bottles instead. What seems like nothing today is tomorrow's greatest forest pest! We will only see beautiful, well-preserved forests in films and not in real life,” Pigman tells about the upcoming activities. 

More than 500 3rd and 4th-grade students from Tukums, Engure and Jaunpils municipalities will have the opportunity to participate in the “One Day for Safety” event that will take place from 10 to 14; but from 14 they will be able to explore different emergency vehicles.

Responding to the invitation of JSC “Sadales tīkls”, the State Fire-fighting and Rescue Service, State Police, Road Traffic Safety Directorate, Consumer Rights Protection Centre, Bank of Latvia, Ombudsman's Office, Emergency Medical Service, as well as the Latvian Red Cross Association and SJSC “Latvijas dzelzceļš”, JSC “Latvia’s State Forests” and JSC “Gaso” will also participate in the safety event.

During the event, children will have a unique opportunity to see the vehicles of the emergency services of the organizations represented in the event: a medical emergency medical car, police car, electric emergency service car, gas emergency car as well as play various educational safety games, take tests and participate in various other activities. During the event, students will learn safety conditions near the tracks, learn to become responsible road users, learn the basics of first aid in the most common household accidents, learn about fire safety and proper action in various emergencies, learn gas and electrical safety issues, cash security features, how to handle and store money safely, listen to Pigman's advice on how to preserve clean forests, and test their knowledge of the safety of toys and entertainment services, as well as learn more about children's rights and responsibilities.

This will be the sixth year of the children’s safety education programme “One Day for Safety”. Previously, the event was held in Liepāja, Daugavpils, Jelgava, Ogre and Līvāni.