UPS volunteers in Ho Chi Minh City played a key role at our ‘Safe Style Fashion Show,’ sitting on the judges panel and supporting the event by encouraging students to like and share our Safety Delivered Facebook page. By challenging the university students and road safety ambassadors to design outfits that highlight common traffic rules
Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Tuong, Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City Traffic Safety Committee, presented Daryl Tay, Managing Director of UPS Vietnam, with a certificate of recognition to show his gratitude to The UPS Foundation and UPS Vietnam for their commitment to increasing helmet-wearing rates in Vietnam. UPS employees have contributed nearly 900 volunteer hours
CEO Mirjam Sidik discussed challenges and opportunities with road safety in Vietnam as part of a panel discussion and press conference attended by 25 members of the media. Sidik joined representatives representatives of the Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a global safety science company, and the College of Transportation Ho Chi Minh City. The press conference was
As part of our Safety Delivered program, 2,338 quality helmets were donated to students at Le Van Tam Primary School in Hanoi, where less than 5% of students were recorded wearing helmets during a pre-implementation survey. The primary school is located in the heart of the city center, which is notorious for its chaotic traffic flow. A teacher training workshop
AIP Foundation President Greig Craft attended the UN Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC) meeting in New York City. Attendees discussed implementation of the recently adopted UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/72/271; voluntary global performance targets for road safety; the next high-level meeting on improving global road safety; current and future activities of UNRSC project groups; and partner
On 12 April, 2018, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed launched the new UN Road Safety Trust Fund at headquarters in New York City, U.S. The Fund will mobilize critical resources to finance road safety interventions by opening up new government and municipal funding and re-focusing national road safety budgets towards proven ‘Safe System’ interventions.
General Motors Vietnam (GM Vietnam) and AIP Foundation kicked off the Protect Your Precious campaign in collaboration with Vietnam’s National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC) and the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) to promote the use of child safety seats and the importance of children wearing seat belts. Attendees at the kick-off event at Dich
The prestigious Botnar Child Road Safety Challenge has awarded AIP Foundation with a grant to implement Slow Zone, Safe Zone, our new two-year, city-wide road safety program focused on reducing speed in school zones in Pleiku City, Vietnam. The overall purpose of the program is to reduce road crash injuries and fatalities in school zones in Pleiku
Greig Craft, President of AIP Foundation, discussed our Global Helmet Vaccine Initiative at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research’s workshop in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference gathered industry experts and focused on the theme of improving road safety for sustainable cities. At the round table, Craft presented on our Global Helmet Vaccine Initiative, which works
The People’s Committee of District 6 issued its new pedestrian safety plan for 2017-2020, which includes key safe school zone priorities advocated for by AIP Foundation’s Walk This Way program. The pedestrian safety plan will target primary and secondary schools located along the planned Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) corridor and feeder roads. The plan aims to achieve the following
