This past month we launched the Safety Delivered community outreach campaign in Cambodia in which 80 Tuk Tuks across Phnom Penh will display banners featuring anti-distracted driving imagery and messages for the next three months. This campaign is focused on promoting safer driving practices amongst young drivers. Safety Delivered is a two-year program being implemented in Cambodia, Myanmar,
To combat the dangerous rise in road crash fatalities in Nanba Township over the summer months, our Walk Wise pedestrian safety program is conducting a series of outreach events to raise awareness about road safety within the community. Since July, Nanba Township has already experienced two serious road crashes, resulting in a devastating four fatalities and two
As part of our Helmets for Families program in Kampong Cham City, 11 Manulife staff volunteers had the opportunity to ‘meet and greet’ with their local community while distributing leaflets on helmets and road safety. Manulife volunteers toured the local streets and engaged with over 600 business owners and residents to clarify road safety issues and to
Johnson & Johnson highlights Helmets for Kids in its innovative global Health for Humanity Report demonstrating its commitment to improving road safety all around the world. Since 2012, AIP Foundation and Johnson & Johnson have partnered to provide helmets and road safety education to students at schools throughout central and southern Vietnam through the Helmets for Kids program. For
After successfully reaching over half a million undergraduate students through our first distracted driving public awareness video ‘The Science of Crazy,’ the next phase of the project is delivering our message to a younger demographic (15 – 17 year-olds) in order to raise awareness and inspire them to action. Based on real-life stories, ‘Final Moments’ is a viral video
The National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC), in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) and Honda Vietnam Company Ltd (Honda Vietnam) have announced that approximately 1.95 million quality helmets will be donated to all first-graders in Vietnam at the beginning of the upcoming 2018 school year. Protec, our social enterprise helmet factory, will produce approximately 700,000 of the
AIP Foundation Thailand Chairperson Ratanawadee H. Winther and Thailand Country Manager Oratai Junsuwanaruk presented on behalf of AIP Foundation at the ‘East Asia & Pacific Workshop on a Safe and Healthy Journey to School’ held in Bangkok, Thailand. UNICEF organized the meeting with support from the FIA Foundation, the Child Health Initiative, and the United
As the 2017-2018 school year came to a close, our pedestrian safety program Walk Wise successfully completed its year-end review of two of our program schools. Nanba No. 2 Primary School and Kunchi Vocational Middle School were both reviewed against a variety of criteria in order to measure their progress over the past year. This included knowledge tests of participating students, stakeholder
A representative from the National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC), Deputy Chief Secretary Mrs. Trinh Thu Ha, attended the orientation workshop for our new Slow Zone, Safe Zone program being implemented in Pleiku City, Vietnam. The commitment on a national level to the outcomes of the program represents an important achievement for Slow Zone, Safe Zone, which aims to reduce road
AIP Foundation was invited to present at the Malaysia Commuting Accident and Road Safety Seminar (MyCARSS) 2018 on the topic of Transport Safety among Workers in Developing Countries. Louise Goldman, AIP Foundation’s Policy and Program Advisor, presented a case study of the transport safety risks impacting Cambodia’s commuting factory workers. Commuting safety has been a
