We hosted the first stakeholder orientation workshop for a new child car seat initiative, which is a Road Safety Grant Programme supported by Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA). The initiative is modeled after FIA’s toolkit for child safety in cars, and will advocate for child seatbelt use and car seats to be included in Vietnamese law. The

Michael T. Doherty and Paul Hayward, Co-Founders of Panthera Group Thailand, donated 300,000 Thai Baht to AIP Foundation to support distribution of 1,000 helmets to students in Bangkok and Phuket through the Helmets for Kids program which targets to provide school children and teachers with quality helmets and road safety education. The program will benefit students from 10

During the first week of April, worked with a trainer from the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health to deliver a series of teacher trainings for nearly 150 teachers at four program schools in Nha Be District as part of our Helmets for Families program sponsored by Abbott. The trainings focused on correct helmet

Our Cambodia team engaged 45 representatives from the Transportation Working Group, National Road Safety Committee, and several government agencies in a three-day training of trainers workshop. The workshops build capacity for trainers and leading stakeholders to provide them with tips and tools to better serve vulnerable garment and footwear workers at the five factories participating in

Sawai Seesai graduated from Mahamakut Buddhist University, Bangkok, Thailand, as a member of the Humanities Faculty with a major in English. He has a Master’s degree in Language and Communication from School of Language and Communication, National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), and has a PhD from the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), Bangkok, Thailand. He worked as

In 2018, we completed our 19th year of saving lives in low- and middle-income countries. Our diverse programs – ranging from advocating on behalf of garment and footwear factory workers and educating underserved ethnic minority communities, to empowering university students to act as ambassadors for their peers – spanned five countries. In Cambodia, China, Myanmar,

We gave 96 helmets to high-risk students at Phum O Primary School in Siem Reap as part of our Helmets for Kids program. This event was co-sponsored by a new partner, The Dirty Cuts Siem Reap Motorcycle Club (DCSR), a local motorcycle club founded in 2013 and based in Siem Reap. Proceeds from the Siem Reap Bike Meet,

Helmets for Families organized a visit to Cho Ray Hospital to engage health professionals with parents and teachers from four new program schools, the Nha Be Bureau of Education and Training, and school management boards to deliver road safety messages. Participants visited road crashes victims who have suffered from brain injuries and saw firsthand the importance of

AIP Foundation received a $1 million USD grant from The UPS Foundation for the second phase of Safety Delivered, which will be implemented in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, India, and the Philippines over the next two years. The program will primarily work with primary school students to increase child helmet use and also work with young,

Leading up to the 3rd United Nations Ministerial Meeting scheduled in Sweden in February 2020, Vietnam has been selected to launch a 5-continent initiative organized by the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety. The initiative supports the UN Voluntary Global Performance Targets for Road Safety. At the event, a symbolic baton was handed over