Over 460 primary school students practiced their road safety knowledge by riding their bicycles through a course simulating real-life traffic situations that confront the children everyday on the road. A motorcycle driving simulator was also present that allowed students to experience what it feels like to ride a motorcycle and avoid road hazards and distractions.
AIP Foundation partnered with Honda to provide youth road safety ambassadors in our Safety Delivered program with tips and techniques to enhance their driving skills at the Phnom Penh driver training center. Honda provided training both in the classroom and on the course track to improve their road safety knowledge and driving ability. Driving theory,
AIP Foundation’s Thailand Country Manager Oratai Junsuwanaruk made two guest appearances on FM 99.5’s (Traffic Radio for Society) Save & Care program to discuss our recent work on the issues of distracted driving and school bus safety in Thailand. The interviews focused on the three-month social media campaign we ran earlier this year to educate young people
Sixty students participated in a capacity-building workshop as part of their new roles as road safety ambassadors for our Safety Delivered program. The students are from two new target universities, the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and the Ho Chi Minh City University of Agriculture and Forestry, which were recently added to the program
Our Safety Delivered program expanded its road safety programming to three new universities and one new primary school. The program is expected to reach more than 66,000 new university students and 2,338 more primary schools students as a result of the expansion. Le Van Tam Primary School is the new primary school in Hanoi and the three program universities include
Forty-two teachers at Le Van Tam Primary School in Hanoi attended a teacher training workshop as part of the Safety Delivered program sponsored by The UPS Foundation. At the workshop, teachers learned useful information about road safety, especially the importance of helmet use for both children and adults, as well as strategies for teaching road
UPS volunteers in Ho Chi Minh City played a key role at our ‘Safe Style Fashion Show,’ sitting on the judges panel and supporting the event by encouraging students to like and share our Safety Delivered Facebook page. By challenging the university students and road safety ambassadors to design outfits that highlight common traffic rules
Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Tuong, Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City Traffic Safety Committee, presented Daryl Tay, Managing Director of UPS Vietnam, with a certificate of recognition to show his gratitude to The UPS Foundation and UPS Vietnam for their commitment to increasing helmet-wearing rates in Vietnam. UPS employees have contributed nearly 900 volunteer hours
As part of our Safety Delivered program, 2,338 quality helmets were donated to students at Le Van Tam Primary School in Hanoi, where less than 5% of students were recorded wearing helmets during a pre-implementation survey. The primary school is located in the heart of the city center, which is notorious for its chaotic traffic flow. A teacher training workshop
Street Wise and Songkhla Province worked together to launch a road checkpoint in preparation for the upcoming Songkran festival period, which tends to see a dangerous spike in road traffic injuries and fatalities each year. At the launch, students and teachers from participating schools wore traditional Thai outfits, seizing on the popularity of ‘Love Destiny’, a smash hit
