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
AIP Foundation staff trained more than 400 teachers from the 23 Walk Wise project schools in road safety curriculum to teach their students in the coming semester. The workshop aimed to increase teachers’ understanding of the importance road safety as well as increase their capacity to work with their students. The AIP Foundation team will
To increase helmet use rates of children within the provinces of Dong Nai, Gia Lai, and Quang Nam, AIP Foundation, supported by Johnson & Johnson, will provide 21 primary schools in these provinces with 5,300 high quality helmets and road safety education under the Helmets for Kids program throughout the current school year. Today, members
Hoang Thi Na Huong, Deputy CEO of AIP Foundation, discussed the importance of child helmet use during a webinar hosted by the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety as part of the “Crash Course in Key Risk Areas” series. She shared information on the importance of wearing helmets while riding on motorcycles. She also
The Natural Growth Co., Ltd., established a partnership with AIP Foundation to support the Helmets for Kids program at a school in the Northern Thai province of Uttaradit, which is where the company grows its crops. The project will start in January 2017. The Natural Growth Co., Ltd., started in 1996 and is a leader
Walk Wise, supported by Chevron, launched its fifth year and announced it is expanding its road safety education programs to 23 new schools in the Chuandongbei (CDB) Gas Project area in the Sichuan and Chongqing provinces of China. The program now serves a total of 80 primary schools and about 90,000 students in the region. More
In partnership with AIP Foundation, Ford Vietnam donated 20 bicycles and helmets to students in Hai Duong Province. Trinh Van Ngan, the company’s Plant Manager, presented the items to students from schools in Cam Giang and Nam Sach districts.
Representatives from USAID Development Innovation Ventures (USAID-DIV), based in Washington, D.C., visited the AIP Foundation Cambodia team to discuss the results of the project it recently supported, Head Safe. Helmet On. The representatives, Erin Crossett and Duc Tran, were able to witness first-hand the impact their support has had in increasing passenger helmet use. They
Members of the Legal Development Program (LDP) attended a World Health Organization-hosted workshop in Geneva, Switzerland, that focused on improving road safety legislation worldwide through improving child restraints and seatbelts in vehicles. The event was affiliated with the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety and more than 30 representatives from five countries attended. The LDP,
