AA Vietnam and AIP Foundation, in collaboration with the Hanoi Traffic Safety Committee, have launched a new child car seat initiative at Nam Tu Liem school in Hanoi. The launch event was held during the 5th United Nations Global Road Safety Week, attended by 800 primary school students and teachers. Public awareness campaigns and education
To celebrate the fifth UN Global Road Safety Week, AIP Foundation’s Walk Wise program organized a public awareness event for the community at Nanba No. 1 Primary School. 55 representatives from AIP Foundation, Xuanhan County, Chevron, and other stakeholder groups as well as 1600 students attended the event. To kick off the event, students gave a performance
AIP Foundation facilitated road safety workers, drivers, and factory management discussions with nearly 200 people at factories in Kampong Chhnang and Kampong Cham provinces. Workers and drivers had the opportunity to speak up and raise their concerns in accordance with this year’s UN Global Road Safety Week theme of leadership for road safety. During the discussions, workers
AIP Foundation President Greig Craft attended the FIA Joint Conference in Sun City, South Africa where he spoke of the need for thorough monitoring and reporting, using the two-decade long campaign for increased helmet use among motorcycle riders in Vietnam as an example. After campaigning on the issue for many years, in 2007, Vietnam enacted
Helmets for Families, supported by Abbott, introduced its sixth year of programming with a launch event held at Lam Van Ben Primary School in Nha Be District, where 1,292 students and teachers received free helmets. AIP Foundation hosted the event in coordination with the Ho Chi Minh City Traffic Safety Committee and Department of Education
AIP Foundation collaborated with the Gia Lai Traffic Safety Committee and Police to implement a combined public awareness and enforcement campaign to reduce speed-related road crash injuries and fatalities in school zones in Pleiku City, Gia Lai Province. This campaign is part of the Slow Zones, Safe Zones program, which is the first-ever pilot program to reduce speed
CEO Mirjam Sidik and Thailand Chairperson Ratana Winther joined global advocates in Chania, Greece for the Sixth Global Meeting of the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety and the 27th meeting for the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration. During the high-level symposium, road safety advocates discussed the Decade of Action and exchanged ideas about
Together with 72 government officials, police officers, youth ambassadors for road safety, and public and private sector representatives, AIP Foundation organized a safe driving campaign prior to the Khmer New Year in Phnom Penh. The main message of this campaign was “Travel safely during Khmer New Year without over-speeding.” Participants distributed informational pamphlets with safety information
Our policy and program advisor, Louise Goldman presented at the IUHPE 23rd World Conference on Health Promotion in Rotorua, New Zealand. The theme of the conference was Promoting Planetary Health and Sustainable Development for All and was attended by more than 1,000 delegates from around the globe discussing a range of public health issues and ways to
We hosted the first stakeholder orientation workshop for a new child car seat initiative, which is a Road Safety Grant Programme supported by Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA). The initiative is modeled after FIA’s toolkit for child safety in cars, and will advocate for child seatbelt use and car seats to be included in Vietnamese law. The
