With the support of Manulife, Helmets for Families donated more than 1000 helmets to students, teachers and parents at Hun Sen Krong Primary School in Preah Sihanouk District. Training workshops were also held for more than 100 parents to promote helmet use. Helmets for Families is focused on engaging parents – especially mothers – as role models in child
AIP Foundation presented on our youth-focused road safety initiatives at the YouthSpeak Forum held in Hanoi, Vietnam, an event that aimed to bring to light the innovative solutions that youth can lead in order to build sustainable cities and communities and live sustainable lifestyles. At the Forum, Communications & Development Coordinator Samantha Serafica discussed how our
AIP Foundation and the Swedish Embassy in Vietnam joined many corporate partners to distribute nearly 2,000 high-quality helmets to students at two primary schools in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The Swedish Embassy gave nearly 1000 helmets to Ba Dinh Primary School in Hanoi and nearly 1000 helmets to Luong The Vinh Primary School
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!”
