Actress and United Nations Global Road Safety Ambassador, Michelle Yeoh, joined 1,500 university students in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to launch the SAFE STEPS Road Safety campaign, a pan-Asian public service initiative spearheaded by Prudence Foundation in partnership with National Geographic and the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA). Globally, more than 1.25 million people
A new Safety campaign will use billboards and a public service announcement to address drowsy driving among industrial truck drivers in the Cai Mep port complex area. The Vietnamese-language campaign’s slogan, which translates to “A road crash can happen in the blink of an eye,” is featured on billboards installed along a major highway, and
Daniel McHugh, an American businessman and philanthropist, and Tran Mai Anh, a Vietnamese attorney and magazine editor, have joined AIP Foundation’s Board of Advisors and Board of Directors, respectively. McHugh is CEO of Livingston International, a finance and consulting company in Chicago, Illinois. He has supported AIP Foundation since its inception, both financially and through
Engaging extracurricular activities reinforced 600 students’ helmet safety knowledge at Ap Dinh Primary School in Hoc Mon District, one of the six schools involved in Abbott’s Helmets for Families program. Students’ behaviors have shifted during the course of the 2016-2017 program, with the average helmet wearing rates across all four schools in the district reaching
Nearly 550 primary school students received quality helmets and were encouraged to wear them as part of their school uniforms during the kick-off ceremony for a new Helmets for Kids program, which is supported by the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB). The road safety initiative aims to make young road users attending Anuk Wat Koruk
Sixty community stakeholders, including representatives from local government agencies and schools, attended the kick-off workshop for the current phase of Walk This Way. The latest phase of the pedestrian safety program is working with primary and secondary schools, as well as public sector organizations, located along Ho Chi Minh City’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor. Construction
APM Terminals and AIP Foundation conducted truck driver road safety trainings at Cai Mep International Terminal (CMIT), which is located in the fast-growing market of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, Vietnam. The terminal neighbors National Highway 51, a notoriously dangerous roadway on which vulnerable users, such as motorcyclists and bicyclists, drive alongside heavy container and truck
AIP Foundation, operating as Safe Kids Vietnam, presented new results from the 2014-2016 implementation of Walk This Way in District 9 of Ho Chi Minh City, which show an increase in students’ safe pedestrian behaviors. The percentage of students crossing the road using a pedestrian crosswalk increased from 48.9% at baseline to 81.2% in 2016.
From 8-15 January, AIP Foundation staff educated parents of students at four primary schools in a primarily low-income and agricultural district of Ho Chi Minh City on helmet safety. The training session was part of Abbott’s Helmets for Families program. Attendees were taught the three-steps to properly wearing a motorcycle helmet and were informed about
Helmets for Families, supported by Abbott, is expanding its road safety education to four new schools in the Hoc Mon District of Ho Chi Minh City, a suburban and agricultural zone where up to 90% of the participating students’ parents are manual laborers. This year, Helmets for Families will continue its work toward increasing road
