AIP Foundation and representatives from the Rotary Clubs of Srapatum and Bangkorlaem met with Wat Rachasingkorn School executives in Bangkok to discuss implementation of the new Safe School, Safe Community program at the school. It is a five-month program that aims to increase helmet use among children, teachers and parents to better protect them from head injury
As part of Street Wise Phase III, we recently held a training for 80 teachers from 11 participating schools at Wat Sathit Chonlathan School, Songkhla province, to introduce the theory and practice of our primary school-level road safety curriculum. The training, which was led by Master Trainers who had also been trained the previous day
Sixty students participated in a capacity-building workshop as part of their new roles as road safety ambassadors for our Safety Delivered program. The students are from two new target universities, the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and the Ho Chi Minh City University of Agriculture and Forestry, which were recently added to the program
Our Safety Delivered program expanded its road safety programming to three new universities and one new primary school. The program is expected to reach more than 66,000 new university students and 2,338 more primary schools students as a result of the expansion. Le Van Tam Primary School is the new primary school in Hanoi and the three program universities include
Forty-two teachers at Le Van Tam Primary School in Hanoi attended a teacher training workshop as part of the Safety Delivered program sponsored by The UPS Foundation. At the workshop, teachers learned useful information about road safety, especially the importance of helmet use for both children and adults, as well as strategies for teaching road
AIP Foundation Thailand was among the representatives from civil society invited to provide input on the Department of Land Transport’s (DLT) Management and Human Resources Development Master Plan. At the meeting, held by the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) in Bangkok, Oratai gave suggestions on road safety management and ways to improve enforcement of relevant laws
AIP Foundation organized a Social and Policy Change Communications workshop in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) Thailand, Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS), and Internews, to build the capacity of Legal Development Program (LDP) members to advocate for road safety legislative and policy change in Thailand. In addition to LDP members, representatives from partner organizations
As part of our Walk Wise pedestrian safety program in Nanba Township of Sichuan Province, China, 19 teachers from Shengdeng and Kunchi Middle Schools participated in a workshop designed to build their capacity to carry out road safety educational programming in their classrooms. The workshop was facilitated by an expert from Southwest University in China,
UPS volunteers in Ho Chi Minh City played a key role at our ‘Safe Style Fashion Show,’ sitting on the judges panel and supporting the event by encouraging students to like and share our Safety Delivered Facebook page. By challenging the university students and road safety ambassadors to design outfits that highlight common traffic rules
Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Tuong, Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City Traffic Safety Committee, presented Daryl Tay, Managing Director of UPS Vietnam, with a certificate of recognition to show his gratitude to The UPS Foundation and UPS Vietnam for their commitment to increasing helmet-wearing rates in Vietnam. UPS employees have contributed nearly 900 volunteer hours
