Dear Friends and Supporters,

During May, we were delighted to participate in the 8th United Nations Global Road Safety Week (UNGRSW) together with the international road safety community.

This UNGRSW offered an opportunity to spur action at national and local levels to make walking and cycling safe, by highlighting concrete and specific interventions that can be taken by different stakeholders – governments, international agencies, civil society, businesses and schools. This year, the international community gathered to mark the themes of #MakeWalkingSafe and #MakeCyclingSafe.

There are countless community moments and memories we made while celebrating UN Global Road Safety Week this year, but here are a few of our favourite highlights: 

• We attended the official UN Global Road Safety Week kick-off meeting where Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director General and Jean Todt, UN Special Envoy for Road Safety, made profound and impactful statements, reminding us that we must make walking and cycling safe and accessible for all.
• We were proud to share our Mobility Snapshot from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In order to achieve real change, we need to shine a light, using data to show the reality of people’s journeys to school, work, and shopping.
• Thuy Anh Hoang from our team spoke at the ‘Advocacy in Action: A Roundtable on Safe Mobility’ Webinar held in celebration of UN Global Road Safety Week by the Global Health Advocacy Incubator. Thuy Anh shared about the importance of empowering youth for road safety. 
• Together with iRAP, we were excited to share the new updated version of the Youth Engagement App (YEA), which is now available! Launched during UNGRSW to support the theme “Streets for Life: #MakeWalkingSafe and #MakeCyclingSafe”. 
• In support of UNGRSW, new trainings of Youth Road Safety Ambassadors at Woranari Chaolem school and an Urban Design Competition under the theme of Road Safety ‘Street Furniture’ took place as part of the Chevron Street Wise program.

While the 8th UN Global Road Safety Week may have come to a close, the time for concrete action is more vital than ever before. We need change. We need commitment. We need to  #MakeWalkingSafe and #MakeCyclingSafe for all. To see what concrete plan decision-makers and Government agencies are taking in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, you can watch the official commitments from the 4th Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety held in Marrakech earlier this year.

At AIP Foundation, we remain committed to transforming mobility for all to save lives, protect the planet and create equal opportunities for all. This is embodied by the recent launch of a new multi-partner Safe School Zones program to safeguard students on their journey to school at the end of May.

Building on the momentum of the Safe School Zones Guide, AIP Foundation is proud to have been selected as a United Nations Road Safety Fund (UNRSF) implementing partner to scale up the program and support establishing standardized school zones across the country.

As we pave the way forward together, I invite you to please read on.

Sincerely,