AIP Foundation organized its third commune-wide meeting at Chbar Ampov District, Phnom Penh, which was attended by 37 participants. The meeting was held to encourage community member to participate in AIP Foundation’s “Commune of Excellence in Helmet Use” competition, which aims to encourage increased helmet use and road safety among communes through innovation, joint activities,
Annually, road crashes cause an estimated 22,000 deaths in Vietnam, more than tuberculosis or HIV/AIDS. Approximately 2,000 children die due to road injury each year, making it the second leading cause of death among Vietnamese children ages 5–14. Road injury costs Vietnam more than 3 billion USD annually, nearly 3% of its GDP. Though the
General Motors Vietnam (GM Vietnam) is partnering with AIP Foundation to donate 1,000 motorcycle helmets and provide road-safety training to students and teachers at the Ai Mo A Primary School in Long Bien District and the Thanh Tri School for Handicapped Children in Thanh Tri District in Hanoi. The helmet handover ceremony was held this
Walk Wise installed 25 billboards in 20 project schools in order to deliver important road safety messages to communities. The billboards delivers the message “Slow down for kids, school ahead.” to the community around the school. Many community members, including parents of students from our project schools, will see the billboards that highlight the importance of
The “Commune of Excellence in Helmet Use” competition launched today in Cambodia to encourage increased helmet use and road safety among communes. With guidance from AIP Foundation under the “Head Safe. Helmet On.” project, communes are encouraged to use innovation, joint activities, and partnerships during the competition. Supported by The UPS Foundation, the competition strives
Fifty million people are injured on the road every year, and 1.5 million die. Every day, 500 kids are killed, and 20,000 are injured. These are some of the statistics that representatives from the United Nations shared with Pope Francis during a meeting at the Vatican. They came to build support for global road safety
Under the Nghi Son Refinery and Petroleum project in Tinh Gia District of Thanh Hoa Province, AIP Foundation held a successful Road Safety Night. The aim of the event was to raise awareness among residents of high risk traffic zones on the importance of road safety. Attended by more than 700 participants, the event received
DENSO, an automotive components manufacturing company, has donated 628 high-quality helmets to students of six different schools in the Udon Thani Province in Thailand. These schools were selected based on their locations along busy highways with high densities of large vehicles and trucks in an effort to align with the aims of AIP Foundation’s Helmets for
