The Young Ambassadors for Road Safety (YARS) network, in partnership with the Australian Embassy’s Direct Aid Program, donated 300 helmets to students from Samdech Decho Hun Sen Krous, Phnum Thnol, and Por Langkar Primary Schools in Siem Reap. Delighted students took part in games organized by the student ambassadors that introduced road safety concepts in an engaging and educational
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health published a paper on the Global Helmet Vaccine Initiative (GHVI), titled A Comprehensive Approach to Motorcycle-Related Head Injury Prevention: Experiences from the field in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Uganda. The paper was a collaboration between AIP Foundation and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including Greig Craft,
Thirty-five stakeholders from government, target universities, and media convened in Phnom Penh to discuss the proposed Safety Delivered television commercial (TVC). At the meeting, we presented the storyboard for the TVC to the stakeholders, including H.E. Min Meanvy, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Public Work and Transportation, and General Ty Long, a Senior
Together with representatives from the Legal Development Program (LDP), we attended the Speed Management Workshop organized by the World Resources Institute (WRI) at the Traffic Police Division in Bangkok. The objective of the workshop was to discuss risk factors for road crashes in Bangkok, how to reduce speeding-related crashes, speed management in Bangkok, and success stories for
Stakeholders, including administrators, teachers, students, parents from six program schools, as well as representatives from government agencies, participated in a stakeholder orientation workshop for the Helmets for Families program in Ho Chi Minh City. During the workshop, participants were introduced to the Helmets for Families objectives, implementation plan, activities, monitoring and evaluation methodology. Challenges and
As part of the Safety Delivered program, AIP Foundation staff trained 85 teachers from Preak Leap and Hun Neang Trabeck Primary Schools on a curriculum to teach road safety to their students in the coming semester. The two-day workshop aimed to increase teachers’ understanding of the importance road safety as well as increase their capacity to work
The British Medical Journal’s Injury Prevention Journal published a paper on the National Child Helmet Action Plan (NCHAP), titled Evaluation of an integrated multisector campaign to increase child helmet use in Vietnam, this month. The paper was a collaboration between authors from AIP Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its Field Epidemiology Training Program, and
In partnership with National Traffic Safety Committee and Ministry of Education and Training, AIP Foundation convened two Safety Delivered kick-off workshops in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City this month. The event brought together government officials from both the national and provincial levels of the Traffic Safety Committee and the Ministry of Education and Training as well
AIP Foundation, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS), and the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI), organized a workshop for Legal Development Program (LDP) members that focused on improving road safety legislation in Thailand. In addition to a special presentation by road safety expert and Assistant Professor Dr. Taweesak
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDoR) 2017 was held on 19 November, 2017. To commemorate the more than 1.25 million people who die on the world’s roads every year, we participated in activations across our program countries. In Vietnam, our team joined local government officials to visit the families of seven road
