Volunteers were out in full force at police checkpoints in Songkhla Province at the start of the Songkran Festival, the Thai New Year celebration, in hopes of promoting safe driving and educating locals about new road safety regulations. AIP Foundation was joined by 74 volunteers in total, among them representatives from Chevron Thailand Exploration and
AIP Foundation Thailand is pleased to announce the successful Helmets for Kids results measured in the northern province of Udon Thani. The project, which was enabled by Thai DENSO Group and the Road Safety Fund, provided road safety education and 628 helmets to six schools during the 2015-2016 school year. Among the schools that had
AIP Foundation was a leading actor in the movement that spurred the Vietnamese government to implement a national helmet law in December 2007, which has resulted in impressive and far-reaching savings for the country and its people. According to updated estimates, in the eight years since the legislative change, US $4.5 billion in medical costs,
Throughout the months of March and April, AIP Foundation, in collaboration with Abbott Laboratories, the National Traffic Safety Committee, and the Ministry of Education and Training, has been organizing extracurricular events focused on road safety at 11 schools throughout the country. Abbott volunteers were in attendance at the events at Truong Dinh school in Ho
From February to April 2016, FedEx and AIP Foundation (operating as Safe Kids Vietnam) organized the “Walk with FedEx Tour” to bring pedestrian safety knowledge, equipment, and materials to 22,500 students in 18 primary schools across District 9 in Ho Chi Minh City. The tour aimed to increase awareness about pedestrian safety among all members
The Walk Wise program, which aims to bring issues of pedestrian safety into the public discourse and educate community members to be safer road users, recently began targeted efforts to manage traffic congestion around school zones during dismissal hours. The first step in this process started with a parent workshop at Hanfeng No.6 Primary School.The Principal of
AIP Foundation’s Legal Development Program (LDP), a collaboration with the World Health Organization with support from the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety, recently debuted a Facebook page dedicated to disseminating information about its activity to a broader audience. The LDP’s immediate aims are to encourage legislative improvement in the arena of road safety in
The Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, HE Mr. Hugh Borrowman, was joined by nearly 1,000 people on the 4th of April for a Helmets for Kids helmet donation ceremony at Nguyen Trai Primary School in the Bac Quang district of Ha Giang province. In attendance were Dr. Khuat Viet Hung, the Executive Vice Chairman of the National
