For two weeks, AIP Foundation discussed helmet safety, speeding, and defensive riding techniques with undergraduate students at RMIT University’s campuses in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. The presentations were part of the university’s Defensive Rider program, an initiative that aims to educate the young drivers on how to navigate Vietnam’s roads safely. RMIT University is a
APM Terminals together with AIP Foundation, a road safety nonprofit, is rolling out a new training program in Vietnam to help make the port community of Cai Mep in southern Vietnam safe. More than 45 truck drivers and other CMIT employees, along with executives from the APM Terminals’ operated Cai Mep International Terminal (CMIT), joined
During a recent Helmets for Families orientation workshop in Ho Chi Minh City’s Hoc Mon District, a government official spoke to stakeholders about her son’s fatal road crash to stress the importance of the program. Mrs. Bui Thi Kim Anh, Vice Chief of the Hoc Mon District Bureau of Education and Training, shared her story with
The AIP Foundation team joined U.S. Ambassador Ted Osius and his husband, Mr. Bond, at their home in Hanoi to honor the Princeton in Asia fellowship program. Greig Craft, founder and CEO of the nonprofit, as well as Peggy Moriarty and Molly Ellison, both members of the development department, attended the celebration. Both Moriarty and Ellison came
FE Credit, in partnership with AIP Foundation and local government agencies, donated more than 1,000 quality helmets to students and teachers from Nguyen Van The Primary School and Anh Duong Special Education School in Ho Chi Minh City. The activity kicked-off FE Credit’s Helmets for Kids program, which will also provide these communities with road safety
AIP Foundation staff trained 23 teachers from a primary school and a school for special needs students on a comprehensive road safety curriculum. Nguyen Van The Primary School and Anh Duong Special School for Disabled Students are both located in District 12 of Ho Chi Minh City. The activity was part of the upcoming Helmets for Kids
Last year in Cambodia, 2,231 people died in road crashes. Worldwide, this number reaches 1.25 million annually – and, another 50 million are injured. Today, on the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, we honor those who have died and been injured, their loved ones, and the medical professionals who compassionately care for
As part of the Helmets for Families program, supported by Abbott Laboratories, 87 teachers were trained on the proper way to wear a helmet and AIP Foundation’s newly developed School Guidelines curriculum. AIP Foundation staff also discussed the results from the previous year of the program and its implementation strategy for the this school year. The teachers, who
More than 1,700 students, school staff, government stakeholders, and community leaders joined together to celebrate International Walk to School Month and the launch of the new 4-year plan for the Walk This Way program, sponsored by FedEx Express. The Pedestrian Safety Gala was hosted at Hong Bang Secondary School in District 5 of Ho Chi
AES-VCM Mong Duong Power Company staff joined 600 secondary school students and teachers for a road safety education training program during the company’s annual “Values Day” celebration. The company also donated 600 helmets to the students at Mong Duong Secondary School in Vietnam’s Quang Ninh Province. Local government representatives, including those from the provincial Traffic Safety Committee,
