Walk Wise, a road safety program focusing on a mountainous region in China, wrapped up its fifth year and consultants conducted a final evaluation of the initiative’s activities. Throughout its tenure, the program has worked with more than 80 schools in Kaizhou District. During the recent evaluation, students from intervention schools and one control school participated in

In observation of the 4th UN Global Road Safety Week, AIP Foundation’s China team hosted the “#SlowDown for the Kids” event with 500 students at HanFeng No. 6 Primary School. During the event, which was affiliated with the Walk Wise program, participants played interactive road safety games. Students from two neighboring schools also attended. Members of the

Twenty-three safety directors from Walk Wise program schools participated in a biannual stakeholder meeting to foster communication regarding road safety efforts among community members. The Kaizhou District Education Department assisted AIP Foundation in organizing the meeting at Zhaojia No. 2 Primary School. During the meeting, participants discussed Walk Wise‘s successes thus far and feedback on

As part of the school-based Walk Wise program, a partnership with Chevron, 246 parents received quality motorcycle helmets to keep them safe while driving on the mountainous roads of Kaizhou District in China. Motorcycles are an important method of transportation for low-income families in the area. Walk Wise primarily focuses on providing students, teachers, and

Traffic simulation corners, warning signs, and mobile traffic lights were installed at 23 Walk Wise program schools in the Kaizhou District of China’s Chongqing Province. The equipment will be used to teach students pedestrian safety skills so they can stay safe while walking around their communities. The installations are part of Phase 5 of Walk Wise,

AIP Foundation staff trained more than 400 teachers from the 23 Walk Wise project schools in road safety curriculum to teach their students in the coming semester. The workshop aimed to increase teachers’ understanding of the importance road safety as well as increase their capacity to work with their students. The AIP Foundation team will

Walk Wise, supported by Chevron, launched its fifth year and announced it is expanding its road safety education programs to 23 new schools in the Chuandongbei (CDB) Gas Project area in the Sichuan and Chongqing provinces of China. The program now serves a total of 80 primary schools and about 90,000 students in the region. More

Twenty Walk Wise safety directors and seven master trainers participated in a team-building workshop to reflect on the project’s successes thus far while preparing for the program’s upcoming 23-school expansion in the coming year. The retreat also served as a platform for Walk Wise partners to increase their ownership of the program in the hopes of

The Walk Wise program served more than 100 children in 10 communities in its efforts to create long-lasting changes in pedestrian safety. AIP Foundation trained interns and volunteers from two local organizations, the Kai District Youth League and Kai Xian TongChuang Social Service Center, to administer the activities. At each event, children watched an introductory

Over the past three years, AIP Foundation has consistently delivered quality road safety education to schools throughout Kai County as part of the Walk Wise project. This month, however, the program partnered with local nonprofit Chongqing Youth Aid Volunteer Organization to focus their efforts on children from previously overlooked and under-served communities, including those from low-income families.