Between the 20th and 23rd of June, AIP Foundation’s Walk Wise project invited consultants from the Global Road Safety Program in China and the WHO’s China office, Mr. Ding Baoguo and Mr. Mao, to conduct an evaluation of the road safety education that took place in connection with the project throughout the 2015-16 school year.
Starting at the end of May, the Walk Wise project team and the Kai County Education Committee Officer toured all 20 Phase IV project schools, surveying for traffic risks around the school grounds. They also spoke with each school’s principal and safety director and discussed road treatment methods that could remedy any observed risks. The
AIP Foundation’s Walk Wise project, which is enabled by Chevron, recently organized a group photo competition for three middle schools in Kai County. The contest aimed to improve the knowledge and awareness of the students on the topic of road safety in an interactive and creative format. On May 27th, an exhibition of submitted photos
In December 2015, as part of the Walk Wise project, AIP Foundation and the Kaixian Traffic Police Department in Kaixian, Chongqing, China, organized a helmet safety event targeted especially at motorcycle taxi drivers. In order to improve the safety awareness of these drivers, road safety knowledge was introduced in this event and 130 helmets were
The Walk Wise program, which aims to bring issues of pedestrian safety into the public discourse and educate community members to be safer road users, recently began targeted efforts to manage traffic congestion around school zones during dismissal hours. The first step in this process started with a parent workshop at Hanfeng No.6 Primary School.The Principal of
AIP Foundation recently held a Phase 4 stakeholder meeting for its Walk Wise program in Kai County, China. Principals and school safety officers from 20 project schools were in attendance at the meeting, which aimed to review the program’s previous successes while also looking at what could be revised. Mr. Li, an official from the
Walk Wise installed 25 billboards in 20 project schools in order to deliver important road safety messages to communities. The billboards delivers the message “Slow down for kids, school ahead.” to the community around the school. Many community members, including parents of students from our project schools, will see the billboards that highlight the importance of
Walk Wise, sponsored by Chevron, celebrated China’s 4th National Road Safety Day with 37 project schools holding activities to celebrate the occasion. Schools organized a “walking school bus” to practice pedestrian safety and to spread awareness to the community. Students wore yellow caps to be visible to oncoming traffic and teachers and traffic police guarded
December 2nd is the fourth annual China National Road Safety Day. This year the theme of the road safety day is “Driving safely, be away of danger driving”. To advocate the road safety of safe driving, Walk Wise project worked with Kai County Traffic Police Department on the topic of quality helmet use of motorcycles drivers.
Walk Wise Phase 4 project schools have begun road safety curriculum implementation for the 2015-2016 school year. The Walk Wise program team visited Heyan Primary School; the teachers were excited to teach the road safety class to help keep children safe. Teachers make the classes interesting through games to learn important skills. The school is
