AIP Foundation together with Kai County Education Committee, Kai Youth League organized the Walk Wise Phase 4 Launch ceremony at the beautiful Hanfeng Lake, Kai County, Chongqing. This is the 4th year Chevron has supported Walk Wise. The event aimed to educate the community and encourage everyone to be a responsible pedestrian. AIP Foundation has
AIP Foundation held a second consultative stakeholder meeting to discuss revisions to the television commercial of the “Head Safe. Helmet On.”(HSHO) project. HSHO is a two-year project supported by the United States Agency for International Development, Development Innovation Ventures (USAID-DIV) and others, aimed to increase helmet use in Cambodia. The purpose of the meeting was
Helmets for Kids sponsored by ARRB Group in collaboration with Rotary Matilda Bay and Rotary Sraprathum ended this month after a year of successful implementation. The project was held at Prathom Taveetha Pisek School located in Bangkok Yai District, Bangkok in a high-density traffic area. The school has 729 students and 49 teachers, of which 80%
The World Health Organization (WHO) released the Global Status Report (GSR) on Road Safety 2015 this month, reflecting information from 180 countries, indicating that worldwide the total number of road deaths has plateaued at 1.25 million per year, with the highest road traffic fatality rates in low-income countries. While there has been progress towards improving
AIP Foundation together with Kai county Education Committee, Kai Youth League, and sponsored by Chevron, organized a Walk Wise Phase 4 Launch ceremony at the beautiful Hanfeng Lake, Kai County, Chongqing in China. This is the fourth year Chevron has supported Walk Wise. Kai county Patrol Police, Kai Women’s Federation, and KCCO also supported the ceremony. The event
With support from Johnson & Johnson, 6,115 helmets were distributed to 44 primary schools in the provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Nam, and Dong Nai in new school year 2015-2016, which totaled 9,104 helmets since the beginning of 2015. This is Johnson & Johnson’s fourth year of sponsorship with AIP Foundation’s Helmets for Kids program.
The International Road Traffic and Accident Database (IRTAD) has released their 2015 annual report on Road Safety. IRTAD is a permanent working group of the International Transport Forum at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It is composed of road safety experts and statisticians from renowned safety research institutes, national road and transport
In February 2015, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam was announced to be one of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ selected 10 cities and five countries to participate in a new phase of the foundation’s Global Road Safety Initiative, which aims to reduce fatalities and injuries from road traffic crashes. With a new five-year commitment (2015-19), the program will
Ratanawadee H. Winther, Chairperson of AIP Foundation Thailand, held a guest lecture on “Safety Education” for PhD students of the Education Department at Rangsit University in Bangkok. During her lecture, Mrs. Winther raised road safety awareness to create a better understanding of the necessity of public safety. She also described AIP Foundation’s work in previous
