KAMPONG CHAM, Cambodia – January 15, 2025 Cambodia’s garment and footwear industry employs more than 870,000 workers across 1,200 exporting factories. Despite being the bedrock of the $13 billion USD industry, thousands of these workers face increasingly heavy traffic, unsafe and overloaded vehicles, and dangerous road user behaviors in their daily commute to work. Workers,
SONGKHLA, Thailand – December 24, 2024 In a major step towards enhancing road safety in the region, Songkhla Province officially opened the Road Accident Prevention and Reduction Operation Center as a way to kickstart the provincial road safety campaign for the New Year 2025. Local officials, community members, and youth ambassadors from the Chevron Street
GIA LAI, Vietnam – December 20, 2024 In Vietnam, many children share the road with speeding trucks, with no sidewalks to walk on going to school or proper infrastructure for safe cycling. Across the country, young cyclists lack the knowledge and practical experience to navigate these busy roads safely on their school journeys. These issues
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – December 17, 2024 Vietnam is advancing its commitment to safer school zones for students nationwide. One of the key goals of the National Strategy on Road Traffic Safety in Vietnam for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2045 (approved by the Prime Minister in 2020), is to ensure
HANOI, Vietnam – December 13, 2024 Training has commenced in Hanoi as part of the $2 million Google.org AI&Me Project leveraging AI to support a country-wide safety assessment of road infrastructure around 900 schools in Vietnam and support upgrades at the highest-risk locations. On 26-27 November 2024, Forest Inventory and Planning Sub-Institute, Northwest Region (NWSI)
LONDON, United Kingdom – December 12, 2024 AIP Foundation has won a 2024 Prince Michael International Road Safety Award for the AI&Me: Empowering Youth for Safer Roads program. Yearly, the Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards are presented to organizations in recognition of their outstanding contribution to improving road safety. H.R.H.Prince Michael of Kent, a
YEN BAI, Vietnam – November 30, 2024 As part of the legacy of the Helmets for Kids program in Vietnam, supported by Johnson & Johnson and in collaboration with the National Traffic Safety Committee and the Yen Bai Traffic Safety Committee, a helmet handover ceremony was held at Tran Nhat Duat high school. This was
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – November 18, 2024 Building on the success of our innovative Big Data and AI road safety program that recently concluded, AI&Me: Empowering Youth for Safer Roads, we are now proud to launch the newest program championing youth rights in Vietnam: the Empowering Youth for Livable Cities program. This new
BANGKOK, Thailand – November 4, 2024 Mirjam Sidik and Ratana H. Winther, from AIP Foundation attended the Seminar on Road Safety in Southeast Asia: Issues and Prospects in Bangkok. The seminar gathered experts from Thailand, the United Nations and France, providing a comparative approach to global issues of road safety and formulating concrete recommendations. It
YEN BAI Province, Vietnam – November 4, 2024 In April 2024, the official Safe School Zones Guide Vietnam (SSZ Guide) was launched globally and brought with it the opportunity for implementing safe school zones for students across Vietnam. This November, AIP Foundation, a non-profit advocating for safe, equitable, and sustainable mobility in the region, together