AIP Foundation and 15 youth road safety ambassadors from Thuy Loi University in Hanoi joined the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on a road safety data collection mission. The mission aimed to gather personal safety data around Hanoi’s Metro Line 3 in order to make development recommendations to the government. Using the Safetipin App, the road
After another successful year of Helmets for Families programming, we hosted a year-end review workshop at the Ho Chi Minh City’s Traffic Safety Committee office in District 1. We gathered representatives from six of our targeted primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City to discuss their experiences with the program as well as to collaborate on the next school
University students serving as road safety ambassadors began filming at Ho Chi Minh Agricultural and Forestry University’s campus in Thu Duc District for a four part Safety Delivered public awareness campaign. Safety Delivered, sponsored by The UPS Foundation, focuses on school-based road safety education, public awareness campaigns, and quality motorcycle helmet distribution and education. The short videos will cover
On 23 July 2018, the Automobile Association Vietnam (AAV), with support from the Hanoi Traffic Safety Committee and student road safety ambassadors, organized a training session for 200 students at Thuy Loi University as part of the #3500LIVES campaign. The training session covered topics such as safe motorcycle driving skills, the dangers of using a
Johnson & Johnson highlights Helmets for Kids in its innovative global Health for Humanity Report demonstrating its commitment to improving road safety all around the world. Since 2012, AIP Foundation and Johnson & Johnson have partnered to provide helmets and road safety education to students at schools throughout central and southern Vietnam through the Helmets for Kids program. For
The National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC), in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) and Honda Vietnam Company Ltd (Honda Vietnam) have announced that approximately 1.95 million quality helmets will be donated to all first-graders in Vietnam at the beginning of the upcoming 2018 school year. Protec, our social enterprise helmet factory, will produce approximately 700,000 of the
A representative from the National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC), Deputy Chief Secretary Mrs. Trinh Thu Ha, attended the orientation workshop for our new Slow Zone, Safe Zone program being implemented in Pleiku City, Vietnam. The commitment on a national level to the outcomes of the program represents an important achievement for Slow Zone, Safe Zone, which aims to reduce road
Every day, 3,500 people are killed on the world’s roads. Young people are particularly affected as road crashes are the number one cause of death of 15 to 29 year olds. To combat this alarming trend, we have partnered with the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) and the FIA Foundation to support their #3500LIVES campaign
Thanks to our Helmets for Families program implementation this year, both the average helmet-use rates among students and the percentage of parents and students wearing quality helmets have increased dramatically. Average helmet-use rates among students increased from 62% to 77% at our four schools in the Hoc Mon district of Ho Chi Minh City and
The darker side of the popular emoji icon was revealed to audiences across Vietnam in a newly launched distracted driving campaign targeted at 15 to 29-year-olds. The campaign’s slogan is “Leave your phone alone or you could be next!” and features a sinister, evil emoji character as its key visual. The two associated TV commercials