Teachers from the 10 new Street Wise program schools gathered to prepare for the upcoming initiative, which will provide 1,200 helmets to students in Songkhla Province. Currently, no students at the target schools wear helmets while riding on motorcycles to and from school. In addition to providing quality helmets, Street Wise will teachers on how to effectively educate their
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FedEx Express and AIP Foundation, operating as Safe Kids Vietnam, announced the winners of the “Photovoice” contest at Hoa Lu Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City. Held from March to April this year, students from Ho Chi Minh City submitted their photos of road hazards and unsafe pedestrian behaviors as well as recommendations on how the walking
AIP Foundation joined representatives from four of UNICEF’s East Asia Pacific Region offices, the World Health Organization, FIA Foundation, iRAP, and regional government agencies to share its knowledge on child-based road safety programming. The two-day workshop was held to support UNICEF country teams develop child-focused road safety programming over the next year. The initiatives are being supported by
The Legal Development Program (LDP) welcomed members of its 2017 class and held a kick-off meeting for its third year. The initiative, which is led globally by the World Health Organization and the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety, aims to build the capacities of legal, civil society, and media professionals to strengthen road safety legislation and
A new PSA launched in Bangkok urging people to “Tell Auntie PIA” (“Fong Pa PIA”) about risky road behaviors they see and dangerous traffic areas in the city. The campaign is part of the new Slow Down…Save Lives program, which is a collaboration between AIP Foundation and the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP). The PSA was unveiled
Nearly 360 night school students from low-income backgrounds received reflective gear to stay safe on their commutes to and from school, which often take place in the dark and along high-risk roads. During the handover event, they watched a performance about the children’s story, “the tortoise and the hare,” to learn about how to walk safely and the
Truck drivers, local authorities, and transportation professionals shared their safe driving skills knowledge with more than 3,000 members of the Cai Mep port community in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, Vietnam, at the “Get Home Safe” festival. The event was hosted as part of the Lifting Safety program and in commemoration of the 4th UN Global
In observation of the 4th UN Global Road Safety Week, AIP Foundation’s China team hosted the “#SlowDown for the Kids” event with 500 students at HanFeng No. 6 Primary School. During the event, which was affiliated with the Walk Wise program, participants played interactive road safety games. Students from two neighboring schools also attended. Members of the
In tandem with the 4th UN Global Road Safety Week, university students, as part of the Young Ambassadors for Road Safety (YARS) program, will raise awareness about the need to #SlowDown to save lives in their communities. With support from AIP Foundation, the student ambassadors drafted a ‘Save Lives. Slow Down’ Joint Statement that calls