Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam AIP Foundation coordinated five hospital visits during the week of September 4-9 to distribute 6,400 informative hand fans to patients at Cho Ray, Nha Be, Hoc Mon, Cu Chi and Nhi Dong 2 hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City through the Helmets for Families program, sponsored by Abbott. The hand
Hanoi, Vietnam The “Wear Helmets for Children” Call For Advocacy Walking Event, which took place on Sunday morning on Ho Guom street in Hanoi, received overwhelming support from the local community with more than 3,000 first-grade students and 3,000 parents in attendance to support the Prime Minister’s directive, which aims for over 80% of children
AIP Foundation presented mid-term highlight results of the Slow Zones, Safe Zones program, a speed reduction program in Pleiku City, Vietnam, that began in April 2018 and will conclude in March 2020, at the Second Annual Conference for Road Safety in Cambodia. Slow Zones, Safe Zones uses a multi-pronged approach to reduce speed through constructing tailored school zone
AIP Foundation joined automobile association representatives and road safety advocates at the FIA Region II Club Development Program on Policy & Persuasion from September 2-4 in Singapore to attend a training on advocacy and policy. The training was co-hosted by the The Federation Internationale d’Automobile (FIA) and Curtin University, and provided road safety stakeholders with an
AIP Foundation partnered with the George Institute for Global Health UK and the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP), with support from Fondation Botnar, to discuss the results of the Slow Zones, Safe Zones program in Vietnam on Injury Prevention Journal’s blog. In 2017, Fondation Botnar launched the Child Road Safety Challenge (“The Challenge”) acknowledging the
AIP Foundation is leveraging the influence of social media channels to spread messages on the importance of safe driving behavior and helmet use to parents and communities nationwide in Vietnam for its Safety Delivered program. In August, AIP Foundation aired a PSA titled, “Đội mũ cho con, trọn tình cha mẹ” (meaning: “Love your child,
Following the success of AIP Foundation’s Safety Delivered program, The UPS Foundation has continued to support Phase II of the program, which began implementation in April 2019 and will run through December 2020. Four additional primary schools in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, have been selected for implementation. Two of the new program schools, Chbar Ompov 2
Following the success of AIP Foundation‘s Safety Delivered program in Myanmar in 2018, the program began Phase II in partnership with the Mandalay Region Education Office, supported by the UPS Foundation, to deliver school-based helmet safety programs between April 2019 and December 2020. Three target schools have been selected for program implementation. No. (32) Basic
The 7th Annual NGO Fair at the Canadian International School (CIS) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam recently brought together local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for an exciting day of student engagement and education. CIS students from grades 3-12 attended the fair and engaged with local AIP Foundation staff to learn more about helmet legislation, road
Manulife Cambodia recently invited AIP Foundation Cambodia Country Director, Pagna Kim, and Cambodia Program Manager, Piseth Im, to speak to an audience of 400 people and deliver a presentation titled, “Our Road Safety Partnership: Saving Many Lives in Cambodia” at its offices in Phnom Penh. The presentation highlighted the successes of AIP Foundation’s partnership with