AIP Foundation President and Founder Greig Craft and Deputy CEO Na Huong Hoang attended the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) Strength in Numbers Annual Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia. Mr. Craft discussed our successful partnership with Abbott on the Helmets for Families program as part of a joint presentation with Abbott representatives Nancy Liaboe and Mike Ha. Since
AIP Foundation CEO Mirjam Sidik joined fellow road safety advocates at the 2017 Australasian Road Safety Conference (ARSC2017), the largest road safety-dedicated conference in the Southern Hemisphere. At the conference, Sidik presented on our contributions to Vietnam’s National Child Helmet Action Plan, which aims to increase helmet use among child motorcycle passengers. She also discussed Street Wise, our
Since beginning Phase II of Street Wise in January, helmet-wearing rates at the five new program schools in the Singhanakhon and Muang Districts of Songkhla Province have increased from 0% to 55%. The latest stage of Street Wise, an initiative supported by Chevron Thailand, expanded road safety programming from five schools to a total of 10. Street Wise staff presented
Mirjam Sidik, CEO of AIP Foundation, presented at the ‘Every Journey, Every Child’ Conference in London, UK. Her presentation discussed AIP Foundation’s holistic approach to improving child safety, particularly creating safe systems through evidence, advocacy, and action. The presentation was part of a panel for strategies for safer journeys to school. Hosted by the FIA Foundation,
Our Thailand Chairperson Ratanawadee H. Winther appeared on Spring News, a Thai Television news channel, with German Ambassador Peter Pruegel, Irish Ambassador Brendan Rogers, and Swiss Ambassador Ivo Sieber to discuss lessons learned and ways to reduce road crashes and fatalities. The interview covered a range of road safety issue areas, including how advances in car technology can
More than 50 government officials and relevant stakeholders attended an introductory workshop to celebrate the launch of the new road safety program, Safety Delivered, in Cambodia. Safety Delivered, a program supported by The UPS Foundation, will work with young, inexperienced motorcycle drivers in target universities and communities to improve their unsafe and distracted driving behaviors while also
As part of the recently launched Safety Delivered program, more than 100 teachers and parents from Kien Hung and Bien Giang Primary Schools were trained in a specialized road safety curriculum so they can educate students to be safe road users. The teachers were taught how to organize a road safety simulation activity as well as how
AIP Foundation Thailand Chairperson Ratanawadee H. Winther joined fellow road safety experts for an advisory group meeting convened by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), the Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE), and the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Meeting participants discussed global and regional mandates
In preparation for implementing its new program in Vietnam, Safety Delivered conducted a baseline survey of 927 students from seven universities in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi in order to measure safe motorcycle driving knowledge, attitude, and practice among university students prior program intervention. The assessment determined that, among other key findings, 91.8% of
The Legal Development Program (LDP) convened road safety legal scholars and key government officials for a multi-stakeholder discussion on obstacles and successes of Thailand’s Traffic Fine System and penalty provisions in the country’s Road Traffic Act, B.E. 2522. The event began with a panel discussion with five road safety legal experts including Pol. Lt. Gen. Wittaya Prayongpan,
