AIP Foundation launched a Young Ambassadors for Road Safety (YARS) network that will empower university students to design and implement sustainable road safety awareness activities for more than 3,000 of their peers. During the program’s kick-off ceremony, a helmet design competition was also announced. The capacity building program will work with three universities located in

Hong Leong Bank Cambodia Plc. teamed up with AIP Foundation and #SaveKidsLives to provide nearly 100 grade 1 and 2 students with life-saving helmets. The handover ceremony took place at Anuk Wat Primary School in Phnom Penh. During the event, the students participated in educational activities about how to follow traffic rules and learned about the

As part of the Helmets for Families program, 50 parents took part in a training workshop in which they learned about the importance of helmet use as well as safety precautions they should take during the upcoming Lunar New Year celebrations, a time when road crash rates tend to increase. AIP Foundation and Manulife Cambodia launched this year’s edition

At an annual awards ceremony, H.R.H. Prince Michael of Kent honored Cambodia’s National Road Safety Committee (NRSC) for its robust enforcement of the country’s new road traffic law, including the mandatory use of motorcycle helmets for passengers, which has saved lives and prevented serious injuries. Two hundred and fifty-nine fewer road crash-related deaths and 596

Helmets for Families today expanded its road safety education efforts to Kessararam Primary School in Siem Reap City and donated more than 900 helmets to the school community. The project, which is supported by Manulife, celebrated the launch of its fifth year with a ceremony at the primary school, which is located along National Road

Manulife employees and AIP Foundation staff painted road safety murals at Kessararam Primary School as part of the Helmets for Families program. The paintings will be displayed at the school to teach students and their families about the importance of wearing helmets while riding on both bicycles and motorcycles. Manulife and AIP Foundation have been partnering on

During a teacher training session at Kessararam Primary School, 32 teachers unanimously committed to enforcing helmet wearing among their students no matter the situation. The event, which was held as part of the Manulife-supported Helmets for Families program, provided these educators with vital knowledge on road safety and motorcycle helmet use. In the coming months, the

Representatives from USAID Development Innovation Ventures (USAID-DIV), based in Washington, D.C., visited the AIP Foundation Cambodia team to discuss the results of the project it recently supported, Head Safe. Helmet On. The representatives, Erin Crossett and Duc Tran, were able to witness first-hand the impact their support has had in increasing passenger helmet use. They

In January 2016, the coalition developed and submitted a Joint Statement on the New Road Traffic Law in Cambodia to the national government. As a result, members have been invited to a monthly meeting with the Cambodia National Road Safety Committee to provide feedback and technical input on key road safety issues.

New case studies, titled “Investing to Save Lives: An impact investment case for preventing road trauma,” commissioned by the FIA Foundation that feature results from AIP Foundation’s helmet safety project in Cambodia were launched at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. The research, co-authored by Social Finance UK and Impact Strategist, reveals that investing