AIP Foundation staff partnered with Camhomes representatives to deliver 150 quality helmets to lucky motorcyclists as part of a community outreach event focusing on road safety in Preah Sihanouk Province. In 2017, road crashes accounted for 75% of road fatalities in Cambodia, where only 27% of adult motorcyclists and 8% of child passengers were recorded
With the support of Manulife, Helmets for Families donated more than 1000 helmets to students, teachers and parents at Hun Sen Krong Primary School in Preah Sihanouk District. Training workshops were also held for more than 100 parents to promote helmet use. Helmets for Families is focused on engaging parents – especially mothers – as role models in child
Over the past few weeks, youth ambassadors for road safety (YARS) representatives met with government officials and local bus company operators to discuss and advocate for a distracted driving policy implementation. AIP Foundation also trained YARS on the best ways to present and facilitate workshops. Students from three Phnom Penh universities spoke with H.E. Min
The Solidarity Center and AIP Foundation joined forces to assist Cambodian trade unions with an inaugural foundational workshop on “Transport Safety for Commuting Garment Workers.” The workshop was convened to specifically discuss commuting safety for workers and to encourage the trade unions to consider and play a larger part in promoting improvements in transportation across the sector.
Manulife employees coordinated with AIP Foundation staff to paint road safety murals at Hun Sen Krong Primary School. This volunteerism is part of the Helmets for Families program implemented by AIP Foundation and supported by Manulife Cambodia since 2012. The murals will be up for the whole 2018-2019 school year to ensure students correctly wear helmet during commute
The Helmets for Families program supported by Manulife Cambodia, trained 42 teachers at Hun Sen Krong Primary School on motorcycle helmet use. Hun Sen Krong Primary School is especially vulnerable, as approximately 80-95% students commute by motorcycle or bicycle, yet less than 10% wear helmets. Students and teachers are extremely vulnerable to road crashes, particularly during rush hour when
AIP Foundation staff accompanied researchers from the Center for Policy Studies (CPS) and the Solidarity Center to 40 driver interviews in Bavet, Cambodia where the introduction of buses for transporting factory workers is slowly starting to replace flat-bed trucks as the main means of collective transport. The town of Bavet borders Vietnam and includes a
This month, initial Road Safety Working Group (RSWG) meetings were held at garment and footwear factories for discussions on the Garment and Footwear Factory Workers Road Safety pilot program. The RSWG meetings, attended by 65 participants across three provinces included representatives from all sections of the factory – including workers, management, HR, security, trade unions, and health clinics.
This past month we launched the Safety Delivered community outreach campaign in Cambodia in which 80 Tuk Tuks across Phnom Penh will display banners featuring anti-distracted driving imagery and messages for the next three months. This campaign is focused on promoting safer driving practices amongst young drivers. Safety Delivered is a two-year program being implemented in Cambodia, Myanmar,
As part of our Helmets for Families program in Kampong Cham City, 11 Manulife staff volunteers had the opportunity to ‘meet and greet’ with their local community while distributing leaflets on helmets and road safety. Manulife volunteers toured the local streets and engaged with over 600 business owners and residents to clarify road safety issues and to
