Australian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, Angela Corcoran, met with 30 university students from the Young Ambassadors for Road Safety (YARS) program to review its progress. The student ambassadors presented on the program’s achievements and lessons learned thus far, and offered recommendations for future implementation. Key initiatives discussed included the ‘Save Lives. Slow Down’
The Young Ambassadors for Road Safety (YARS) program convened 25 of its members for a capacity building workshop focused on lessons learned from implementation of the program’s action plan thus far. AIP Foundation organized the workshop to solicit feedback on successes, challenges, and lessons learned from student ambassadors from each of the target universities. The
Helmets for Families, a program supported by Manulife Cambodia, kept busy during the summer vacation at Kessararam Primary School with interactive, police led road safety lessons for students as well as community outreach activities to promote helmet use and road safety. Manulife volunteers teamed up with traffic police from Siem Reap to lead road safety
As part of a capacity building workshop for road safety advocates, Kelly Larson, Director, Global Road Safety Program at Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Dr. Witaya Chadbunchachai, Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, shared their advocacy expertise with the participants. Members of the Legal Development Program (LDP), who have backgrounds in policy,
Representatives from the Singhanakhon Police department led extracurricular activities focused on road safety for 600 students and 23 teachers from the Singhanakhon District. Students learned a variety of road safety lessons, including guidelines for driving safely and how to wear a helmet properly. Participating schools included Wat Sathit Chonlatarn School, Wat Thammakhod School, Wat Bor
AIP Foundation has partnered with four universities in Cambodia for its new Safety Delivered program, which will include road safety education and public awareness campaigns to raise students’ awareness of the risks of distracted driving. As part of the first phase of the program, we conducted a baseline survey to gather information on the attitudes
AIP Foundation’s partner on the Helmets for Families program, Manulife Cambodia, recently won the Corporate Social Responsibility Leadership of the Year award from Asia Pacific Customer Service Consortium (APCSC). Manulife Cambodia has supported the Helmets for Families program since 2012, which encourages road safety and helmet use in local communities through education, helmet donations, and community outreach efforts. Manulife
AIP Foundation joined Ford Vietnam to officially kick off the 10th year of the global Driving Skills for Life (DSFL) program in Da Nang. The program aims to have at least 1,500 drivers participate in DSFL sessions this year, bringing the total number of participants since its launch in Vietnam in 2008 to 13,000. Ford
AIP Foundation received a $1 million USD grant from The UPS Foundation for a new road safety program, Safety Delivered, which will be implemented in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, and Myanmar. Safety Delivered aims to reach nearly 15 million direct and indirect beneficiaries over two years. It will work with young, inexperienced motorcycle drivers to improve
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