This holiday season, consider supporting AIP Foundation in our efforts to save lives by reducing road crash fatalities and injuries. Mark your calendar for this year’s #GivingTuesday, which will take place on November 29, when we’ll be accepting donations through our GlobalGiving page. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for updates.
As part of the Helmets for Families program, supported by Abbott Laboratories, 87 teachers were trained on the proper way to wear a helmet and AIP Foundation’s newly developed School Guidelines curriculum. AIP Foundation staff also discussed the results from the previous year of the program and its implementation strategy for the this school year. The teachers, who
AES-VCM Mong Duong Power Company staff joined 600 secondary school students and teachers for a road safety education training program during the company’s annual “Values Day” celebration. The company also donated 600 helmets to the students at Mong Duong Secondary School in Vietnam’s Quang Ninh Province. Local government representatives, including those from the provincial Traffic Safety Committee,
“Catalyst Asia,” a bi-annual magazine published by the Institute for Societal Leadership at Singapore Management University, profiled the principal of a Helmets for Kids project school in Udon Thani Province. Tanongsak Haprom has made helmets a mandatory part of his students’ uniforms. In April 2016, helmet wearing rates at half of the Helmets for Kids program schools in
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
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
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.
