Starting at the end of May, the Walk Wise project team and the Kai County Education Committee Officer toured all 20 Phase IV project schools, surveying for traffic risks around the school grounds. They also spoke with each school’s principal and safety director and discussed road treatment methods that could remedy any observed risks. The
AIP Foundation, in collaboration with The UPS Foundation and Save the Children and with support from Vespiario Thailand Ltd., the Tesco Lotus and BIG Trees Project, and the Bangkok Bicycle Campaign, held an event, “A helmet for life”, to raise awareness of The 7% Project, which aims to address the consistently low rates of helmet
Protec, a social enterprise helmet factory established by AIP Foundation, just reached an impressive milestone: 15 years of providing vulnerable road users with safe and affordable helmets! There are currently 200 staff working for Protec, including 130 factory workers, some of whom are disabled and benefit from the specifically-modified work environment of the factory. The
Stakeholder orientations and teacher training workshops have been held in Quang Nam, Gia Lai, and Dong Nai provinces as part of the preparations for the Helmets for Kids programs that will take place there throughout the upcoming school year. This represents the start of a fifth consecutive year of partnership between AIP Foundation and Johnson
AIP Foundation’s Walk Wise project, which is enabled by Chevron, recently organized a group photo competition for three middle schools in Kai County. The contest aimed to improve the knowledge and awareness of the students on the topic of road safety in an interactive and creative format. On May 27th, an exhibition of submitted photos
Xiaoyan Xu, China Country Director at AIP Foundation, presented at the Asia Pacific Road Safety 2016 Conference: Halving road deaths and injuries by 2020 – The Challenges for Communities, Companies and Countries. Xiaoyan presented a session called “A child’s right to road safety,” reflecting on our current project, Walk Wise, which aims to increase pedestrian safety among children commuting to and from school. Organized by the
For the first time since 2004, the World Health Assembly has adopted a resolution on road safety, noting that urgent action is needed to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals target to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries by 50% by 2020. Among other items, the resolution calls for national strategies and plans to address
AIP Foundation and The UPS Foundation have signed a memorandum of understanding to announce their cooperation on a new project, Safety Delivered. The signing ceremony took place during an American Chamber of Commerce business event attended by senior American diplomats on the occasion of U.S. President Barack Obama’s historic first visit to Vietnam. Greig Craft,
While speaking to The New York Times about the approach he takes with his extensive philanthropic involvements, former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg highlighted the work that has been done to address low rates of helmet use in Vietnam, referring to the efforts as “among the foundation’s most successful endeavors in [the area
