To celebrate the final day of the 24th Annual Singhanakhon Games, Street Wise participated in a community parade attended by over 3,000 people. Students, wearing helmets and carrying banners, walked in the parade on behalf of Street Wise to advocate for helmet safety. The audience consisted of students, teachers, parents, and local organizations from six school districts in the
Australian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, Angela Corcoran, met with 30 university students from the Young Ambassadors for Road Safety (YARS) program to review its progress. The student ambassadors presented on the program’s achievements and lessons learned thus far, and offered recommendations for future implementation. Key initiatives discussed included the ‘Save Lives. Slow Down’
The Young Ambassadors for Road Safety (YARS) program convened 25 of its members for a capacity building workshop focused on lessons learned from implementation of the program’s action plan thus far. AIP Foundation organized the workshop to solicit feedback on successes, challenges, and lessons learned from student ambassadors from each of the target universities. The
Our extracurricular activities take our helmet safety curriculum out of the classroom and into the schoolyard. This month, we used interactive games to reinforce students’ road safety knowledge as part of the Helmets for Kids program sponsored by the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB). Activities included a painting contest, a bicycle race, and a quiz
AIP Foundation’s CEO, Mirjam Sidik, joined child injury prevention peers at the Safe Kids Worldwide Childhood Injury Prevention Convention, known as PrevCon, in Baltimore, Maryland. At the convention, Sidik presented on Vietnam’s National Child Helmet Action Plan, which aims to increase helmet use among child motorcycle passengers. She also discussed our pedestrian safety program, Walk
Helmets for Families, a program supported by Manulife Cambodia, kept busy during the summer vacation at Kessararam Primary School with interactive, police led road safety lessons for students as well as community outreach activities to promote helmet use and road safety. Manulife volunteers teamed up with traffic police from Siem Reap to lead road safety
As part of a capacity building workshop for road safety advocates, Kelly Larson, Director, Global Road Safety Program at Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Dr. Witaya Chadbunchachai, Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, shared their advocacy expertise with the participants. Members of the Legal Development Program (LDP), who have backgrounds in policy,
Dr. Rohit Baluja, President of the Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE) in India and Director of the College of Traffic Management, visited Ho Chi Minh City this month to understand the problems faced by vulnerable road users with respect to pedestrians, schoolchildren, the elderly, and people with disabilities. IRTE is producing a documentary focused
“Tell Auntie PIA” (“Fong Pa PIA”), our recently launched video PSA in Bangkok, has garnered 1 million views on Facebook since May. The campaign, which is part of the new Slow Down to Save Lives program, urges people to submit comments and images through social media of risky road behaviors that they see and dangerous traffic areas in
Representatives from the Singhanakhon Police department led extracurricular activities focused on road safety for 600 students and 23 teachers from the Singhanakhon District. Students learned a variety of road safety lessons, including guidelines for driving safely and how to wear a helmet properly. Participating schools included Wat Sathit Chonlatarn School, Wat Thammakhod School, Wat Bor
