AIP Foundation’s Safety Delivered program, which is supported by the UPS Foundation, reached out to Thanh Tri Primary School, Hoang Mai District, Hanoi for the first time in 2018. The school has 1,785 students and 80 teachers. This school is located along a main road with high traffic density of shipping trucks, cars, and motorcycles,
Last week, AIP Foundation organized extra-curricular activities at Muang Singhanakhon Municipal 1 (Ban Yang Ngam) School in Songkhla province for 389 students, road safety ambassadors, and teachers from 6 project schools as part of Street Wise, Phase III. The activities included simulation exercises designed to help kids as well as adults learn how to stay safe on the
AIP Foundation staff accompanied researchers from the Center for Policy Studies (CPS) and the Solidarity Center to 40 driver interviews in Bavet, Cambodia where the introduction of buses for transporting factory workers is slowly starting to replace flat-bed trucks as the main means of collective transport. The town of Bavet borders Vietnam and includes a
AIP Foundation and 15 youth road safety ambassadors from Thuy Loi University in Hanoi joined the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on a road safety data collection mission. The mission aimed to gather personal safety data around Hanoi’s Metro Line 3 in order to make development recommendations to the government. Using the Safetipin App, the road
Legal Development Program members recently attended the 11th ATRANS (Asian Transportation Research Society) Annual Conference. This year’s conference was entitled “Transportation for a Better Life: Lessons Learned from Global Experiences to Local Best Practices.” The conference, presided over by Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith, began with a panel discussion comprised of five experts from the UK, Australia, Vietnam, and
This month, initial Road Safety Working Group (RSWG) meetings were held at garment and footwear factories for discussions on the Garment and Footwear Factory Workers Road Safety pilot program. The RSWG meetings, attended by 65 participants across three provinces included representatives from all sections of the factory – including workers, management, HR, security, trade unions, and health clinics.
This week, AIP Foundation and the Thai Health Promotion Foundation’s Developing Work for Traffic Police to Reduce Road Accident (phase 4) Project held a brainstorming meeting on the Appropriate Speed Limit for Road Traffic Act B.E. 2522 (1979) at I Residence Hotel in Bangkok. The meeting aimed to provide a platform for agencies responsible for
In the week following the deaths of two students in Dhaka, Bangladesh who were killed by a bus driver racing to collect passengers, unprecedented student protests and international backlash were at the center of the country’s headlines. AIP Foundation Thailand Chairperson Ratana H. Winther was interviewed on two national television programs regarding these events, the
Together with Wat Phraya Krai Police Station, the Road Accident Victims Protection Company Limited, and A.P. Honda Co., Ltd., AIP Foundation organized extra-curricular activities for 28 fifth graders at Wat Rachasingkorn School in Bangkok to help them refresh their road safety knowledge through games as part of the Safe School, Safe Community program. The program aims to increase helmet use among children,
Last week, AIP Foundation attended the closing ceremony of More Untold Stories: Road Safety Journalism Fellowship 2018 at the Bliston Suwan Park View hotel. At the ceremony, we discussed and reviewed the collaboration between Legal Development Program (LDP) and the fellowship since its launch in March this year. These joint efforts have, among others, led to improvement of
