This year, our Helmets for Kids program is celebrating its sixth year of implementation and expanding into a new province. Thai Nguyen province is a mountainous, midland province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. Similar to Yen Bai province, Thai Nguyen is a multi-ethnic community with eight main ethnic groups. Thai Nguyen province also faces
AIP Foundation mobilized students, teachers, and community leaders across Vietnam, China, and Cambodia in support of the Child Health Initiative’s week of action held from May 21-27. The new campaign calls for a first ever summit of world leaders on child and adolescent health in order to re-focus global policy and prioritize youth road deaths and injuries
AIP Foundation partnered with Honda to provide youth road safety ambassadors in our Safety Delivered program with tips and techniques to enhance their driving skills at the Phnom Penh driver training center. Honda provided training both in the classroom and on the course track to improve their road safety knowledge and driving ability. Driving theory,
AIP Foundation partner FIA Foundation had the opportunity to see our road safety work first hand during a trip to Vietnam by representative Monalisa Adhikari. While here, Adhikari participated in a review workshop for the implementation of our Helmets for Kids program during the 2018 school year. She also toured program schools associated with our
AIP Foundation participated in a stakeholder workshop for a new project co-organized by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), AIESEC International, and SafetiPin that focuses on improving access and mobility for pedestrians along the upcoming Hanoi Metro Line. A key component of the pilot will be the use of Safetipin, an innovative online map-based smart phone
AIP Foundation’s Helmets for Families program emphasized the importance of road safety for children by hosting the “Children Have Fun With Road Safety” festival at Tan PhuTrung Primary School in the Cu Chi District of Ho Chi Minh City. This is the fifth year that Helmets for Families, supported by the global healthcare company Abbott
Operating as Safe Kids Vietnam, AIP Foundation organized a workshop in collaboration with FedEx Express, World Bank, International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP), and the Ho Chi Minh City Traffic Safety Committee that focused on improving safety for pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcyclists in Ho Chi Minh City. The half-day workshop introduced the results of iRAP’s Star Rating
Sixty students participated in a capacity-building workshop as part of their new roles as road safety ambassadors for our Safety Delivered program. The students are from two new target universities, the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and the Ho Chi Minh City University of Agriculture and Forestry, which were recently added to the program
Our Safety Delivered program expanded its road safety programming to three new universities and one new primary school. The program is expected to reach more than 66,000 new university students and 2,338 more primary schools students as a result of the expansion. Le Van Tam Primary School is the new primary school in Hanoi and the three program universities include
Forty-two teachers at Le Van Tam Primary School in Hanoi attended a teacher training workshop as part of the Safety Delivered program sponsored by The UPS Foundation. At the workshop, teachers learned useful information about road safety, especially the importance of helmet use for both children and adults, as well as strategies for teaching road
