Each year, the United Nations hosts the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims to honor the 1.25 million people who die annually due to road crashes. This year, it will take place on Sunday, 20 November. Visit the #WDR16 official website for more information.
This holiday season, consider supporting AIP Foundation in our efforts to save lives by reducing road crash fatalities and injuries. Mark your calendar for this year’s #GivingTuesday, which will take place on November 29, when we’ll be accepting donations through our GlobalGiving page. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for updates.
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
Thailand Country Manager, Oratai Junsuwanaruk, presented to the Rotary Club of Srapathum on the AIP Foundation’s school-based education and awareness projects. She was also presented with a Certificate of Appreciation during the visit. The Rotary Club of Srapathum is a chapter of Rotary International, an organization dedicated to supporting communities through service. It boasts 1.2 million members worldwide.
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,
“Catalyst Asia,” a bi-annual magazine published by the Institute for Societal Leadership at Singapore Management University, profiled the principal of a Helmets for Kids project school in Udon Thani Province. Tanongsak Haprom has made helmets a mandatory part of his students’ uniforms. In April 2016, helmet wearing rates at half of the Helmets for Kids program schools in
Members of the Legal Development Program (LDP) conducted a brainstorming meeting for Thai government officials that focused on developing ideas for new speeding legislation and enforcement efforts. The group discussed setting speed limits, installing signage, and developing punishments for violating laws. It also created a timeline and code of conduct for improving speeding law enforcement
This month, 18-year-old Amy Lee visited our Ho Chi Minh City office on behalf of her school in the California, U.S.A., Rolling Hills Prep and Renaissance Schools, to present the proceeds from a recent fundraiser conducted by the school’s “Cakes for Causes” club. The school doubled its target and was able to raise $1,000, which
Over the past two years, helmet-wearing rates at Street Wise project schools in Songkhla Province, an initiative supported by Chevron, have increased from 3% to 38%. Street Wise staff presented the program’s final evaluation results to government stakeholders at the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation in Songkhla Province, where Street Wise has been implemented
