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
AIP Foundation, in cooperation with target district authorities, organized its fourth series of commune-wide meetings to discuss the successes and challenges of implementing the Head Safe. Helmet On. (HSHO) project in Kampong Speu amd Kandal Provinces. The meetings gathered 135 participants, among them various district authorities, commune road safety working group members, and media representatives
Police Colonel Kriangsak Chantarawong, member of AIP Foundation’s Legal Development Program, was a guest speaker during Automobile Symposium 2016, an event organized by the Thai Automotive Industry Association and the Grand Prix International Public Company. His speech analyzed the success of Section 44, a clause of the 2014 interim constitution of Thailand which has been
This month 404 helmets were donated to students of Trapiang Kork Primary School in Cambodia’s Kampong Cham Province, a school notorious for its high levels of yearly road injuries. This is the first collaboration between AIP Foundation and Automobile Association of Cambodia (AAC), an organization established in 2010 and a member of the Fédération Internationale
AIP Foundation recently held a Phase 4 stakeholder meeting for its Walk Wise program in Kai County, China. Principals and school safety officers from 20 project schools were in attendance at the meeting, which aimed to review the program’s previous successes while also looking at what could be revised. Mr. Li, an official from the
AIP Foundation, along with six other NGOs working on road safety in Cambodia, have recently re-emphasized their stance on the new Road Traffic Law by updating a joint statement that was previously issued at a press conference in late January and submitting it to the Royal Government of Cambodia. The joint statement urged the government
In support of International Women’s Day, which occurred on March 8th, AIP Foundation organized a “Mothers and Helmet Use” forum at Sothearos Primary School. The forum represents a vital part of the Helmets for Families project sponsored by Manulife Cambodia. The mothers in attendance received information about the broader ramifications of the new passenger helmet
A kick-off meeting took place in mid-March for a two-year program led by the Traffic Safety Department of the Ministry of Transportation (MOT) in Vietnam and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). The program is aimed at strengthening national road safety management capacities in Vietnam. AIP Foundation was
AIP Foundation, in partnership with Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production, organized an event to acknowledge the efforts of 88 student Road Safety Ambassadors in Thailand’s Songkhla Province. The ceremony is part of a broader Street Wise project aimed at increasing the awareness of road safety dangers and the fluency in preventative skills among Songkhla’s students.
