During the 23rd United Nations Road Safety Collaboration meeting, a Road Safety Fund aimed at providing funding to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal targets was launched. Greig Craft, President and Founder of AIP Foundation, attended the meeting. He met with other road safety experts, including Dr. David Sleet and Dr. Erin Sauber-Schatz of the U.S. Centers
Each year, the United Nations hosts the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims to honor the 1.25 million people who die annually due to road crashes. This year, it will take place on Sunday, 20 November. Visit the #WDR16 official website for more information.
This holiday season, consider supporting AIP Foundation in our efforts to save lives by reducing road crash fatalities and injuries. Mark your calendar for this year’s #GivingTuesday, which will take place on November 29, when we’ll be accepting donations through our GlobalGiving page. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for updates.
“Catalyst Asia,” a bi-annual magazine published by the Institute for Societal Leadership at Singapore Management University, profiled the principal of a Helmets for Kids project school in Udon Thani Province. Tanongsak Haprom has made helmets a mandatory part of his students’ uniforms. In April 2016, helmet wearing rates at half of the Helmets for Kids program schools in
This month, 18-year-old Amy Lee visited our Ho Chi Minh City office on behalf of her school in the California, U.S.A., Rolling Hills Prep and Renaissance Schools, to present the proceeds from a recent fundraiser conducted by the school’s “Cakes for Causes” club. The school doubled its target and was able to raise $1,000, which
Hoang Thi Na Huong, Deputy CEO of AIP Foundation, discussed the importance of child helmet use during a webinar hosted by the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety as part of the “Crash Course in Key Risk Areas” series. She shared information on the importance of wearing helmets while riding on motorcycles. She also
Members of the Legal Development Program (LDP) attended a World Health Organization-hosted workshop in Geneva, Switzerland, that focused on improving road safety legislation worldwide through improving child restraints and seatbelts in vehicles. The event was affiliated with the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety and more than 30 representatives from five countries attended. The LDP,
AIP Foundation CEO Mirjam Sidik joined fellow road safety stakeholders to discuss risk management, as well as the organization’s two-wheeler helmet education programs, at the third “Roads Between Us” conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Sidik presented on AIP Foundation’s work in Vietnam and Cambodia, and participated in a panel discussion. The event built upon preceding “Roads Between
The International Safety Media Awards honored AIP Foundation with two awards – “Excellence in Media Evaluation” and “Gold” in the short video category – for the organization’s mass media efforts promoting helmet safety in Cambodia. The accolades were announced as part of the closing ceremony of the 12th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion. The conference,
Greig Craft, AIP Foundation President, discussed the organization’s Vietnamese helmet safety initiatives at the Fédération Internationale de L’Automobile – Region II (Asia Pacific) Roundtable in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The conference gathered industry experts representing 17 countries in Asia, as well as Australia and New Zealand. The Colombo-based Automobile Association of Ceylon (AAC), the oldest and largest organization
