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Global Newsletter July 2019 |
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Dear Friends and Supporters, This month, we have busy been reaching out to communities, presenting at global conferences, and launching video media campaigns. In July, AIP Foundation joined 500 childhood injury prevention leaders at the Safe Kids Worldwide Childhood Injury Prevention Convention in Washington, D.C., USA, where we demonstrated our impact through our school-based pedestrian safety programs, Walk This Way and Slow Zones, Safe Zones. In Vietnam, AIP Foundation reflected on six months of successful programming through Helmets for Families, including the coordination of a hospital visit to bring medical professionals into conversation with parents and teachers from our new program schools. In Thailand, AIP Foundation collaborated with Save The Children through our The 7% Project to share four case study videos to engage stakeholders and promote child helmet use. In Tiantai Township, Sichuan Province, China, our Walk This Way program engaged 300 community members with road safety games for children and presentations from local traffic police. In Cambodia, Helmets for Families partnered with Manulife Cambodia to distribute educational materials to 500 community members. We also worked with local traffic police in Preah Sihanouk Province, Cambodia to lead interactive road safety activities for students at Hun Sen Krong Primary School. This month, AIP Foundation was also featured in Child Health Initiative's Activity & Progress Report for our work on designing safe school zones. It has been an engaging and productive month at AIP Foundation, and we hope it has been the same for you. For more information on our activities, achievements, and related road crash intervention news, please read on. Kind regards, Mirjam Sidik
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Photo of the Month: AIP Foundation CEO discusses capacity building with global injury prevention leaders in Washington, D.C
AIP Foundation CEO Mirjam Sidik attended the Safe Kids Worldwide International Network Meeting in Washington, D.C., where she engaged with child injury prevention leaders from around the world to discuss ways to build capacity in the field of injury prevention. The networking meeting provided a chance to interact closely with other leaders in the lead-up to the Safe Kids Worldwide Childhood Injury Prevention Convention (PrevCon), held from July 17-20. At the one-day networking meeting, participants and speakers discussed the importance of creating national action plans for sustainable child injury prevention and assessed methods for broadening stakeholder bases for awareness and support. Ms. Sidik spoke on behalf of AIP Foundation as a Safe Kids Vietnam affiliate and discussed ways to build fundraising capacity with co-panelist Scott Phillips, CEO of Kidsafe Western Australia. The networking meeting also provided a space for discussing a strategic plan for the members’ continued global cooperative partnership. AIP Foundation enjoyed the opportunity to learn from a number of other speakers at the meeting, including executive leaders of Safe Kids Worldwide, technical advisors specializing in child passenger safety, and numerous academics. |
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AIP Foundation wins 3M Road Safety Award, heads to United States for grand prize trip
AIP Foundation Cambodia Country Director Pagna Kim travelled to Washington, D.C. and St. Paul, Minnesota through a grand prize trip which was awarded to AIP Foundation as the winner of the 3M Road Safety Award for Southeast Asia in 2018. The 3M Road Safety Award recognizes one organization annually for their significant contributions to advancing road safety in the region and AIP Foundation was awarded last year for its helmet safety work in Cambodia through its "Head Safe. Helmet On" project, supported by USAID Development Innovation Ventures (USAID-DIV), FIA Foundation, The UPS Foundation, and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). For the Grand Prize Trip, Mr. Kim travelled to the 3M office in Washington, D.C., where he was briefed on 3M’s Connected Roads program, which seeks to use existing technologies to improve road infrastructure for humans and autonomous vehicles. Mr. Kim also had the opportunity to tour the 3M Customer Innovation Center and the U.S. Capitol. At the 3M Global Headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota, Mr. Kim met with high-level 3M managers, including Mr. John Pournoor, International Government Executive of Government Affairs, and learned about a range of technological developments in the field of road safety, including innovations in traffic sign development and traffic control solutions. Click here to learn more about the 3M Road Safety Award for Southeast Asia. |
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AIP Foundation presents at PrevCon and joins 500 childhood injury prevention leaders in Washington, D.C.
AIP Foundation CEO Mirjam Sidik attended the Safe Kids Worldwide Childhood Injury Prevention Convention (PrevCon) in Washington, D.C., USA, which brought together 500 U.S. and international public health officials to take part in 38 peer learning sessions as part of a global effort to address evolving perspectives surrounding child injury prevention. At PrevCon, Ms. Sidik joined Catherine Bennett of the Michael Phelps Foundation and Nancy Mahoney of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Harford and Cecil Counties in Demonstrating Impact: Introduction to Evaluation and Measurement, a session moderated by Dr. Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Assistant Professor of Health Systems, Director of International Injury Research Unit, John Hopkins University. During the session, Ms. Sidik presented on two of AIP Foundation’s school-based pedestrian safety programs in Vietnam: Walk This Way, located in Ho Chi Minh City, and Slow Zones, Safe Zones, in Pleiku City, Gia Lai Province. Ms. Sidik shared AIP Foundation’s experiences in developing evaluation tools for our safe school zone programs and using assessments results to advocate for speed reduction at target schools. As a Safe Kids Worldwide’s Vietnam affiliate, AIP Foundation implements its Walk This Way program to promote the pedestrian safety of primary and secondary school students. The program involves classroom training, road safety curriculum, environmental modifications, and community engagement, among other measures. One of the successes of Walk This Way was documented through pre- and post-intervention school zone assessments at project schools using iRap's Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) app, a tool which measures, manages, and communicates the risks that children are exposed to on their journeys to school. Measurements collected with the SR4S app found that six primary schools which had received infrastructure modifications had increased their star rating from an average of 2.33 stars to 4.33 stars. |
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Child Health Initiative's Activity & Progress Report 2016-2019 highlights global progress towards safer journeys to school for children
The Child Health Initiative Activity & Progress Report highlights recent global campaigns, advocacy, and practical interventions to improve the lives of children and young adults around the world. Since the Child Health Initiative’s establishment in 2016, the coalition of UN agencies, NGOs, and foundations have coordinated efforts to secure safe and healthy journeys to and from school for every child by 2030. The progress report highlights a number of key successes in this global effort, including the Initiative’s cooperation with the Government of Brazil in 2016 to secure language on children's rights to safe and healthy journeys in the Habit III New Urban Agenda, a document which will help define urban policy to 2030. In 2017, the Initiative also implemented the first ever global conference combining a multisectoral approach to traffic safety, environmental, and urban policy for children, when it convened leading policymakers from governments, cities, UN agencies, NGOs, and environmental agencies in London City Hall. The report also highlights the Initiative’s continued efforts to introduce practical interventions for safer and cleaner urban environments for children, including the development of a child-focused “Designing Streets for Kids” handbook for urban engineers and its ongoing support for the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) Global App, which is set to go live in 2020. The SR4S app will provide the first systematic and comparative evidence-based approach for analyzing risk in roads near schools. AIP Foundation was featured in the highlights of the report for our work in school zone design. |
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AIP Foundation reflects on 6 months of progress with
Helmets for Families in 10 primary schools in Vietnam
From January to June this year, Helmets for Families, supported by Abbott, carried out school-based educational campaigns and helmet distribution programming in 10 primary schools across three provinces in Ho Chi Minh City. Four new primary schools in Nha Be district with 11,311 students and 534 teachers and school staff were selected for 2019-2020 programming based on the road environment of the school, the economic need of the community, and low helmet wearing rates among the community. A special component of the Helmets for Families programming this year included the coordination of meetings between health professionals from head injury departments and parents and teachers from the four new program schools. In March, parents and teachers met with health professionals at Cho Ray Hospital and visited road crash victims who have suffered from brain injuries. Their discussions with Doctor Tran Quang Vinh, Head of Neuro-Resuscitation, and Doctor Huynh Le Phuong, Head of Neurosurgery, on the consequences of road crashes and on the causes of brain injury are part of a longer video that will be shown to all target program school teachers and parents in upcoming September. With the introduction of Helmets for Families programming in the four new schools in Nha Be district, AIP Foundation found that the average helmet wearing rate among students increased significantly from 40.6% to 82.2%. These results demonstrate the importance of incorporating numerous approaches to address public health crises, from helmet distributions to conversations between medical professionals and community members. Click here to watch the discussion between health professionals, parents, and teachers at Cho Ray Hospital. |
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Cambodian traffic police lead road safety lessons for children with
Helmets for Families
In support of AIP Foundation’s Helmets for Families program, traffic police in Preah Sihanouk Province led interactive road safety activities for students at Hun Sen Krong Primary School. Children participated in painting contests and bicycle races, applying practical road safety education to fun activities. Helmets for Families, supported by Manulife, has been operating in Preah Sihanouk since November 2018. Manulife volunteers were also present at the event, encouraging students to share their knowledge through a road safety questionnaire. The Helmets for Families program works to increase helmet use and education amongst not only children, but also their parents, through engagement of entire communities in events such as Hun Sen Krong’s extracurricular day. From 2018-2019, Helmets for Families benefited 943 students, 42 teachers, and 70 parents through helmet distributions, road safety education, and community engagement. As a result, helmet observations before and after program implementation showed an increase in student helmet use from 4% to 66% from 2018 to 2019. See more photos from the event here. |
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Helmets for Families reaches out to 500 community members to promote public road safety awareness
AIP Foundation and Manulife Cambodia reached out to 500 local community members near Hun Sen Krong Primary School to promote proper helmet use and safe driving behavior through the Helmets for Families program. Manulife Cambodia volunteers distributed educational materials to community members and strategically placed posters in high-traffic areas to encourage helmet use among local residents. Manulife Cambodia has supported the Helmets for Families program in Cambodia since 2012. The program targets communities and schools facing dangerous traffic environments and poor road conditions. In Veal Vong Primary School, another target school in Cambodia, Helmets for Families programming increased student knowledge of proper helmet use from 4% to 78% over the 2017-2018 school year. Through continued community outreach efforts and programmatic activities, Helmets for Families renewed its efforts over the 2018-2019 school year to reduce the vulnerability of children on the roads during their commutes to and from school. View more photos from the community outreach here. |
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Related News: Speed cameras to be set up on four national roads in Cambodia
Speed cameras will be installed on four national roads and other main thoroughfares in a move to reduce the appalling death toll on the Kingdom’s roads. The Minister of Public Work and Transport, Sun Chanthol, on Tuesday said the ministry will mount cameras on National Roads 3, 31, 33 and 41, and along other important routes. Drivers caught speeding will be fined. “Traffic accidents kill at least six people every day and cause material losses worth more than $400 million each year. Therefore, brothers and sisters, please do not disregard the traffic laws and always check your vehicle’s roadworthiness in terms of tyres, brakes, steering wheels and other parts,” Chanthol said. Read the rest of the article here. |
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Stakeholders reflect on
The 7% Project in new case study videos
In Thailand, only 7% of children wear helmets when traveling on motorcycles. As part of our collaboration with Save the Children, AIP Foundation filmed four stakeholder case study videos for The 7% Project in Thailand. The project worked to increase engagement of school authorities to encourage helmet use among children and families; strengthen the capacity of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration staff, teachers, community members, and youth leaders; and engage police stakeholders to actively enforce traffic laws. In the first case study, Mr. Sompong Narueng of Wanglewittayanusorn School discusses the impact The 7% Project has had for his students and the community. Watch the full case study here. |
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Walk Wise kicks off summer with community outreach to promote child safety during school break
AIP Foundation’s Walk Wise pedestrian safety program, supported by Chevron, successfully launched its first community outreach event of the summer in Tiantai Township, with over 300 community members in attendance. Representatives from the Xuanhan Traffic Police department and the local government came together to deliver important road safety education messages to children and local community members. One local government representative provided introductory remarks for the event and a traffic police officer presented on several road safety cases involving nearby communities to residents in attendance. Children and community members also enjoyed participating in the road safety games. Due to the higher risk of road crashes involving children during their vacation, Walk Wise is planning several community outreach events in the coming weeks. In order to address the increased vulnerability of students during the summertime, an issue that caught the attention of local stakeholders, Walk Wise will engage with five communities and expects to deliver critical road safety messages to 2,000 residents in communities with its target schools. View more pictures from the community outreach event here. |
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