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Global Newsletter June 2019
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Dear Friends and Supporters,
This month, we brought motorcycle helmet safety to parents and students in Nghe An Province, Vietnam for the first time. Furthermore, we gathered stakeholders together in Gia Lai Province, Vietnam to discuss the successful midterm results of
Slow Zones, Safe Zones, Vietnam’s first school zone speed reduction program.
In Cambodia, we gave voice to garment factory workers, drivers, and management through a series of case studies, which will air throughout the rest of the summer. In China, we wrapped up the school year with evaluations at our 17
Walk Wise program schools.
For more information on our activities, achievements, and related road crash intervention news, please read on.
Kind regards,
Mirjam Sidik
CEO, AIP Foundation
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Photo of the Month: AIP Foundation organizes traffic safety lessons for the first time in Nghe An Province
25-26 May, 2019 – Hanoi & Thanh Chuong, Nghe An Province, Vietnam
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Police and parents demonstrate motorcycle safety to students.
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AIP Foundation coordinated with the People's Police Academy to organize four traffic safety lessons for 100 students of Tien Phong A Primary School in Me Linh, Hanoi and 100 students of Vo Liet Primary School in Thanh Chuong, Nghe An Province. Sixty parents also participated in the program. This marks the first time that AIP Foundation has worked with students in Nghe An Province.
During the lessons, students learned how to identify safety standards of a high quality helmet and differentiate them from poor quality helmets. Additionally, police taught students how to choose suitable bicycles for their ages and how to check the brakes on bicycles.
Road safety games involving traffic sign identification were also played as a way of reinforcing lessons learned. Parents at the lessons also learned how to safely drive with their children on motorcycles.
View more pictures from the traffic safety lessons here.
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Happy International Children's Day from AIP Foundation
1 June, 2019
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Chinese primary school students participate in the This is My Street Campaign
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On 1 June 2019 we celebrated International Children's Day in China, Cambodia, and Vietnam with road safety activities with students. We honor the leadership and tenacity of all the students and children we have worked with across Asia everyday and would like to thank all of our supporters for leading the way towards a future with safer roads and smarter road users.
Please see more International Children's Day photos here.
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Related News: AIP Foundation spotlighted in UPS' Longitudes
28 May, 2019 – Atlanta, Georgia
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Students participate in a demonstration on the three steps to wearing a helmet correctly.
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In Southeast Asia, motor scooters are the main means of transportation. UPS teamed up with AIP Foundation to fund a life-saving initiative called
Helmets for Kids in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam.
Wearing a helmet correctly can reduce fatal injuries by 42 percent and reduce head injuries by nearly 70 percent, according to the World Health Organization. Through charitable contributions from The UPS Foundation, the AIP Foundation program has provided more than 50,000 helmets to young cyclists, and AIP Foundation has worked with governments and police to raise awareness about helmet safety.
Based on the success of that program, we’ve committed to provide even more support.
Read the full article here.
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Thailand Chairperson prepares for 2030 road safety agenda at High-Level Consultative Meeting
15 June, 2019 – Stockholm, Sweden
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The 23 member organization representatives in Stockholm
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On 15 June 2019, Ratanawadee Winther, Chairperson of AIP Foundation Thailand, represented AIP Foundation in the High-level Consultative Meeting for the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety. The meeting was organized in Stockholm, Sweden by UNRSC and Swedish Ministries of Infrastructure and Ministry of Transport to gather high-level representatives from 23 member organizations from various sectors including civil society, academic, corporate, international organization, and government sectors. For the organization of the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference, participants of the meeting provided comments and suggestions to the proposed program, and contents of the high-level panels, parallel sessions, draft declaration, and other related details.
The 3rd Global Ministerial Conference with the theme, 'Achieving Global Goals 2030, will be held at the Waterfront Congress Center in Stockholm, Sweden on 19-20 February 2020. The conference will be co-sponsored by the Government of Sweden and the World Health Organization (WHO). Minister-led delegations from more than 80 countries are expected to attend along with leaders from global corporates, civil society and the global organizations. The conference is to mark the end of UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 and to reach consensus on guidelines to continue global cooperation on road safety to 2030.
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Helmets for Kids featured in Johnson & Johnson's 2018 Health for Humanity Report
6 June, 2019 – New Brunswick, New Jersey
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The Health for Humanity report highlights how Johnson & Johnson is driving better health for all through sustainable partnerships and initiatives.
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Johnson & Johnson has highlighted
Helmets for Kids in its annual Health for Humanity Report. Since 2012, AIP Foundation and Johnson & Johnson have partnered to provide helmets and road safety education to students at schools throughout central and southern Vietnam through the
Helmets for Kids program. For the 2018-2019 school year, AIP Foundation continued its programming at 31 project schools throughout Vietnam.
During the school year, the program distributed 5,181 standard helmets, with 5,075 fully donated and 106 subsidized helmets to students across four provinces. Child helmet use rates increased to above 95% on average from as low as 9.7% in some provinces.
Helmets for Kids will continue operating from 2019 to 2021 and will expand to further provinces.
Please find the full report here.
Please find more info on
Helmets of Kids here.
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Related News: Project helps improve traffic safety in school zones
19 June, 2019 – Pleiku City, Gia Lai Province, Vietnam
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Stakeholders gather to discuss program success and next steps
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Traffic safety around schools in Pleiku City in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has improved remarkably thanks to a two-year project entitled
‘Slow Zones, Safe Zones’.
The Gia Lai’s Traffic Safety Committee and AIP Foundation held a conference on June 19 to review the implementation of the project.
To prevent and reduce traffic deaths and injuries in school zones, the project added modifications to roads around schools like speed bumps, road markings, speed reduction signs, and sidewalks.
Please read the rest of the article here.
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Vietnam's first school zone speed reduction program observes one year of success
19 June, 2019 – Pleiku City, Gia Lai Province, Vietnam
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Raoul Powlowski of the Global Road Safety Partnership symbolically providing Mr. Luu Dinh Canh of the Pleiku Police with a speed gun to assist with enforcement
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AIP Foundation collaborated with the Gia Lai National Traffic Safety Committee to host a midterm review workshop in Pleiku City for
Slow Zones, Safe Zones, the first-ever pilot program to reduce speed in school zones in Vietnam, supported by Fondation Botnar and the Global Road Safety Partnership. The program focuses on speed reduction and school zone safety through the construction of tailored school-zone modifications like speed bumps, road markings, speed reduction signs, and sidewalks. Additional program components include increased law enforcement, road safety public awareness campaign to promote positive road user behavior, and the development and testing of a nationally applicable traffic safety e-curriculum.
The program has seen great success in speed reduction so far including a reduction of speed to 40 km/h on national roads running past Nguyen Luong Bang Primary School and 30 km/h on provincial roads running past Phan Dang Luu Primary School. After one year of implementation, AIP Foundation found that parent knowledge of current speed limit and other traffic issues increased from 15.6% to 62.4%. The average speed of drivers around school zones in Pleiku reduced around 10 km/h for motorcycles and 15-20 km/h for cars, buses, and trucks. Reported student crashes fell from 25.3% to 7.4%. The percentage of students hurt in road crashes near program schools in Pleiku also fell to 69% from 88.3%.
AIP Foundation hosted an experience-sharing workshop with two other Foundation Botnar and Global Road Safety Partnership grantees, Save the Children and Plan International. The workshop concluded with site visits to the two program schools. Next program steps include advocating for continued police enforcement and advocating for continued speed reduction legislation.
Please see more photos from our launch here.
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Pilot program gives voice to garment industry workers and drivers
25 June, 2019 - Kampong Chhang Province, Cambodia
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Garment workers entering the factory in the morning
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An estimated 700,000 garment factory workers provide the labor for Cambodia’s $7.3 billion USD export sector. Approximately 80% of these workers are women and a majority are at risk every day as they commute to and from the factory due to unsafe and overloaded vehicles, poor infrastructure, and increasingly heavy traffic.
AIP Foundation produced five case studies as part of our garment factory worker pilot program in Cambodia to highlight the experiences of these workers. Please watch the story of Channeth, a 22-year old woman who lives and works in Kampong Chhnang Province. She was driving herself and her brother home from work one day when an incident occurred, which changed her life.
Watch the full case study here.
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AIP Foundation attends Southeast Asian road safety meeting
14 June, 2019 – Bangkok
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Panelists at the meeting in Bangkok.
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AIP Foundation recently attended the Supporting Traffic Safety Information Systems of Countries in Southeast Asia Meeting in Bangkok held by the International Transport Forum and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific to learn from cross-sector stakeholders about their recent developments in Southeast Asia on road safety and linkages to global initiatives and processes.
The meeting was an opportunity to discuss 1) existing road safety conditions and initiatives in Southeast Asia, 2) the importance of road safety data and crash data systems for developing effective road safety policies, 3) the development of a Road Safety Observatory for Asia and the participation of Southeast Asian countries, and 4) Global initiatives, including the 3rd Ministerial Conference on Road Safety and the Global network for Road Safety Legislator, as well as the Regional Network for Southeast Asia. Consequently, AIP Foundation will be able to apply the traffic information systems and databases to solve road safety challenges and expand the potential of future partnerships and collaboration within Thailand.
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Walk Wise measures program implementation at 17 schools in Nanba.
27 June, 2019 - Nanba, Xuanhan County, Sichuan Province, China
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Students participate in knowledge test to evaluate road safety curriculum.
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Our pedestrian safety program,
Walk Wise, successfully completed its year-end review of two of our program schools. Xiaba Primary school and Tahe Center School were chosen as sample schools to represent and evaluate all 17 program schools. The schools will be reviewed against a variety of criteria in order to measure their progress over the past year.
Walk Wise is sponsored by Chevron and brings pedestrian safety to the community through improving educator engagement, aligning stakeholder interests, expanding road treatment efforts, and continuing to raise public awareness. The evaluation included knowledge tests of participating students, video observations of students to assess pedestrian safety behavior, and focus groups with teachers, students, and school administrators. Feedback from the schools and community stakeholders will help us improve next year’s road safety classes and build capacity for stakeholders.
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