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Luchemos por la Vida (Spanish for "Let's fight for life") is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to help prevent traffic accidents in Argentina. It promotes road traffic safety and focuses its efforts in contributing to safe behavior in the traffic system. The organization does not receive financial support from government agencies and is mainly held by the effort of volunteers, help from private firms, and services provided to the community. In 2010 there were 21 deaths per day in Argentina (nearly 7,600 in the course of the year), more than 100,000 injured people, and severe material losses due to traffic accidents. ==History== Luchemos por la Vida was created in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 20 June 1990 by a group of people concerned about the daily loss of lives in Argentine traffic. Their principle stated that "every effort is worth to save a life", but their main goal was ambitious: "that no more people die in traffic accidents". As none of the members had specific training on the subject, it was decided to look up national and international information about the problem. Some local institutions related to the road issue in Argentina were contacted apart from embassies to know the situation abroad. The first tasks of the organization consisted in spreading the concern about traffic accidents in the Argentine population. Since this process required to work closer with the community, initially each member talked to friends and neighbors about the problem, followed by the first brochures and posters that were distributed in shops, schools, churches, and newspapers in the neighborhoods of the city. Since then, Luchemos por la Vida has maintained a continued work that, among other things, helped place the problem of traffic safety in the media agenda and national politics. The authorities of Luchemos por la Vida estimate that many lives have been saved due to the changes that have occurred in road safety in Argentina since 1990 . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Luchemos por la vida」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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