Thailand Country Manager Oratai Junsuwanaruk met with representatives from Internews to discuss ways that our Legal Development Program can collaborate with the international nonprofit to advocate for better road safety laws and enforcement in Thailand. The meeting focused on the 2018 Road Safety Journalism Fellowship in Thailand, a collaboration between Internews and the World Health Organization and supported by the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety
Gearing up for the launch of Street Wise Phase III, AIP Foundation staff visited the participating primary schools to discuss the program’s plans and activities. The team also met with district officers and the director of Ban Yang Ngam Municipal 1 School, the latest addition to the program. As part of Phase III, Street Wise will be implemented at 11
In 2017, we celebrated our 18th 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. We distributed 25,572 quality
In support of International Women’s Day, we organized a helmet use forum for 40 mothers at Veal Vong Primary School in Cambodia. The forum is a vital part of the Helmets for Families program, which is sponsored by Manulife Cambodia Plc. The mothers received information on the impact of road crashes on society and their families, the relationship between injury
The People’s Committee of District 6 issued its new pedestrian safety plan for 2017-2020, which includes key safe school zone priorities advocated for by AIP Foundation’s Walk This Way program. The pedestrian safety plan will target primary and secondary schools located along the planned Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) corridor and feeder roads. The plan aims to achieve the following
We teamed up with Metfone, a leading mobile operator in Cambodia, to send a text message to their 200,000 subscribers with the slogan in Khmer from our new Safety Delivered distracted driving campaign. The public awareness campaign’s slogan is “Leave your phone alone or you could be next!” and features a sinister emoji character as
A new safety campaign will integrate media- and community-based approaches to address distracted driving among 15 to 29 year olds. The campaign’s slogan is “Leave your phone alone or you could be next!” and features a sinister, evil emoji character as its key visual. It will be broadcast through a public service announcement on national
As part of a new public awareness campaign in Thailand, our Safety Delivered program has released a new viral video that proves just how “crazy” it is to use a phone while driving. The video, titled “The Science of Crazy,” centers around the concept that using a phone while driving is so crazy that science has a
AIP Foundation Thailand Country Manager Oratai Junsuwanaruk presented the findings of a legislative review of Thailand’s Traffic Fine System and Penalty Provisions at a recent meeting on traffic police reforms in Thailand that was organized jointly by the World Health Organization and the Royal Thai Government. Legal Development Program member Pol. Col. Jinda Klubklaye also
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) recently selected Yan Nawa District, Bangkok, as a pilot area for the province’s first Road Safety Operation Center, taking another step towards meeting their commitments to the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety. Setting up a Road Safety Operation Center in every district in Thailand was one of the
