Throughout the months of March and April, AIP Foundation, in collaboration with Abbott Laboratories, the National Traffic Safety Committee, and the Ministry of Education and Training, has been organizing extracurricular events focused on road safety at 11 schools throughout the country. Abbott volunteers were in attendance at the events at Truong Dinh school in Ho
From February to April 2016, FedEx and AIP Foundation (operating as Safe Kids Vietnam) organized the “Walk with FedEx Tour” to bring pedestrian safety knowledge, equipment, and materials to 22,500 students in 18 primary schools across District 9 in Ho Chi Minh City. The tour aimed to increase awareness about pedestrian safety among all members
The Walk Wise program, which aims to bring issues of pedestrian safety into the public discourse and educate community members to be safer road users, recently began targeted efforts to manage traffic congestion around school zones during dismissal hours. The first step in this process started with a parent workshop at Hanfeng No.6 Primary School.The Principal of
AIP Foundation’s Legal Development Program (LDP), a collaboration with the World Health Organization with support from the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety, recently debuted a Facebook page dedicated to disseminating information about its activity to a broader audience. The LDP’s immediate aims are to encourage legislative improvement in the arena of road safety in
The Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, HE Mr. Hugh Borrowman, was joined by nearly 1,000 people on the 4th of April for a Helmets for Kids helmet donation ceremony at Nguyen Trai Primary School in the Bac Quang district of Ha Giang province. In attendance were Dr. Khuat Viet Hung, the Executive Vice Chairman of the National
AIP Foundation, in cooperation with target district authorities, organized its fourth series of commune-wide meetings to discuss the successes and challenges of implementing the Head Safe. Helmet On. (HSHO) project in Kampong Speu amd Kandal Provinces. The meetings gathered 135 participants, among them various district authorities, commune road safety working group members, and media representatives
Police Colonel Kriangsak Chantarawong, member of AIP Foundation’s Legal Development Program, was a guest speaker during Automobile Symposium 2016, an event organized by the Thai Automotive Industry Association and the Grand Prix International Public Company. His speech analyzed the success of Section 44, a clause of the 2014 interim constitution of Thailand which has been
This month 404 helmets were donated to students of Trapiang Kork Primary School in Cambodia’s Kampong Cham Province, a school notorious for its high levels of yearly road injuries. This is the first collaboration between AIP Foundation and Automobile Association of Cambodia (AAC), an organization established in 2010 and a member of the Fédération Internationale
AIP Foundation recently held a Phase 4 stakeholder meeting for its Walk Wise program in Kai County, China. Principals and school safety officers from 20 project schools were in attendance at the meeting, which aimed to review the program’s previous successes while also looking at what could be revised. Mr. Li, an official from the
