The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) recently selected Yan Nawa District, Bangkok, as a pilot area for the province’s first Road Safety Operation Center, taking another step towards meeting their commitments to the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety. Setting up a Road Safety Operation Center in every district in Thailand was one of the
As part of our Slow Down to Save Lives program, we organized a stakeholders workshop at Yothinburana Primary School to review road crash data collected outside of the school and determine next steps. The participants consisted of school executives and staff, Bang Pho police, and representatives from the Legal Development Program and the Global Health Access Initiative. At
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and Royal Thai Police announced major speed limit reductions on critical roads in the city. The reduction, from 80km/h to 50km/h, follows a yearlong advocacy campaign carried out by our Slow Down to Save Lives program, which is supported by Global Road Safety Partnership under the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety. “Tell
AIP Foundation teamed up with Yan Nawa District’s City Law Enforcement Section and Honda Motorcycle Thailand to organize road safety extracurricular activities for 87 fourth graders at Wat Chong Nonsi School in Bangkok as part of its Helmets for Kids program. The purpose of the activities was to help the students refresh their knowledge of
A new Facebook media campaign launched by our Safety Delivered program is targeting youth in Vietnam with messages to keep them safe on the roads as they return home for Tet, the country’s Lunar New Year and most important holiday. The campaign shares tips and traffic law information from our road safety educational pamphlet in various interactive formats, including infographics, GIFs,
AIP Foundation’s Walk Wise program is building the capacity of local nonprofit Tongchuang Social Service Center to continue delivering road safety education in the Kaizhou District of Chongqing Province, where we finished our five-year mission in November 2017. Tongchuang has worked closely with the Walk Wise program for the past three years and is well versed in our ‘five
Thirty Safety Delivered road safety ambassadors from the Economic University of Ho Chi Minh City took advantage of the highly anticipated AFC U-23 Championship soccer match to educate an estimated 2,500 of their peers with a distracted driving video. The video, which was shown to the audience during the match’s half time, was originally published by Volkswagen and
Local authorities recently assigned a city law enforcement officer to direct traffic in front of Wat Chong Nonsi School, Bangkok, safely guiding students and parents to school during the morning drop-off. The officer was assigned to direct traffic following a meeting with AIP Foundation and key stakeholders which discussed activities and progress for the Helmets for Kids program.
Thirty-five received training on the importance of correct helmet use for themselves and their children through our Helmets for Families program sponsored by Manulife Cambodia. During the training, parents were provided with free quality helmets and instruction as to the importance of consistently wearing a helmet when driving. The training provided information on the national helmet law
Thailand Chairperson Ratanawadee H. Winther and Thailand Country Manager Oratai Junsuwanaruk met with representatives from Chevron Thailand Exploration & Production, Ltd. to discuss implementation of Street Wise Phase III, which will be launched later this year. Street Wise incorporates road safety education; extracurricular activities; parental and community activities; and stakeholder engagement focused on providing pedestrian and helmet skills
