Earlier this month, AIP Foundation gave presentations at the Safety 2018 World Conference in Bangkok. CEO Mirjam Sidik presented on our Vietnam pedestrian safety program Walk This Way and the work being done to help students get safely to school. Thailand Chairperson Ratana H. Winther presented on the successes of our Street Wise program in Thailand and Cambodia Country Director Pagna Kim
Over the past few weeks, youth ambassadors for road safety (YARS) representatives met with government officials and local bus company operators to discuss and advocate for a distracted driving policy implementation. AIP Foundation also trained YARS on the best ways to present and facilitate workshops. Students from three Phnom Penh universities spoke with H.E. Min
The Solidarity Center and AIP Foundation joined forces to assist Cambodian trade unions with an inaugural foundational workshop on “Transport Safety for Commuting Garment Workers.” The workshop was convened to specifically discuss commuting safety for workers and to encourage the trade unions to consider and play a larger part in promoting improvements in transportation across the sector.
In order to grow and facilitate capacity building, Street Wise held a final evaluation stakeholder meeting as well as a recognition ceremony for student road safety ambassadors. At the stakeholder meeting on Thursday, 46 participants from the 11 program schools, Chevron Thailand, AIP Foundation, and the community gathered to review Street Wise programming this year and to evaluate its
AIP Foundation/Safe Kids Vietnam joined millions of children, parents, and community leaders from more than 40 countries around the world this month to celebrate International Walk to School Month. This year AIP Foundation celebrated and promoted pedestrian safety through a public awareness parade in Tran Hung Dao Primary School located in District 1, Ho Chi
The Legal Development Program (LDP), held the Seminar on Safe Motorcycles: A Way to Reduce Road Traffic Injuries and Fatalities Among Young People recently to push for development and implementation of measures to improve the safety of young motorcycle riders who, in Thailand, account for the majority of road crashes involving motorcycles. In the morning, Thanachart Paliyawate,
Over 1,000 students of the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City came together for a Safety Delivered public awareness parade across all 10 campuses of the university to tackle the issue of mobile phone use among youth while driving. The slogan of this event was: “Leave your phone alone, or you could be next!”
Manulife employees coordinated with AIP Foundation staff to paint road safety murals at Hun Sen Krong Primary School. This volunteerism is part of the Helmets for Families program implemented by AIP Foundation and supported by Manulife Cambodia since 2012. The murals will be up for the whole 2018-2019 school year to ensure students correctly wear helmet during commute
Together with Xuanhan Natural Gas Office, AIP Foundation organized a stakeholder meeting of Walk Wise in Nanba Town, Xuanhan County with representatives from 17 program schools, the Department of Education, the traffic police department, the Youth League of Xuan Han County, and Chevron China. The meeting introduced the Walk Wise program to new schools and wrapped up the first year
The Helmets for Families program supported by Manulife Cambodia, trained 42 teachers at Hun Sen Krong Primary School on motorcycle helmet use. Hun Sen Krong Primary School is especially vulnerable, as approximately 80-95% students commute by motorcycle or bicycle, yet less than 10% wear helmets. Students and teachers are extremely vulnerable to road crashes, particularly during rush hour when
