Batam, 29 July 2010- The Asia Injury Prevention (AIP) Foundation with corporate sponsors Chevron Corporation, Mitsui Exploration Co., Ltd. (MOECO), and PTT Exploration and Production Public Company, Ltd. (PTTEP) hosted a Helmets for Kids road safety event at Batu Ampar Primary School in Batam.  The sponsors donated 650 motorbike helmets to students and teachers at the opening ceremony.

Hanoi, 21 June 2010 - A Government delegation from Nicaragua led by Major Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez Kraudy, National Transit Chief and Mr Alvaro Lacayo, President of the Automobile Club of Nicaragua, and a member of the National Traffic Safety Committee of Nicaragua, visited AIP Foundation in Hanoi and the Protec Helmet assembly plant in the Noi Bai Industrial Zone on Monday. The trip was a fact-finding mission and information sharing opportunity for the Nicaraguan delegation, AIP Foundation and its international affiliate, the Global Helmet Vaccine Initiative.

Mobile education unit – van with trained staff passing out flyers and answering questions that parents may ask

This week, AIP Foundation vans will travel to schools in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi to pass out flyers and educate the students and parents in districts of each city where helmet use is low and intervention is especially needed.

Letter to parents of all Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City schools involved in AIP Foundation programs. This letter requests parents to pledge to put a helmet on their children.

Phnom Penh, 6 May 2010 – AIP Foundation in co-ordination with the Ministry of Interior, the National Road Safety Committee and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports announced today the launch of the Helmet Vaccine Coalition Cambodia and its “One Helmet. One Life.” helmet use campaign. Co-funded by the Global Helmet Vaccine Initiative (GHVI), ANZ Royal Bank (Cambodia) Ltd. and Total Cambodge, the Helmet Vaccine Coalition Cambodia will implement public awareness campaigns and school-based programs to reduce traumatic brain injury and fatalities from road traffic crashes.

Vietnam Helmet Wearing Coalition (VHWC) have donated more 1,105 helmets, posters and flyers in an effort to combat the low helmet use rates of children. The donation was supported by an handover ceremony at the Dich Vong B Primary School in Hanoi. The Helmets for Kids ceremony preceded a roadshow which proceeded through major streets of Hanoi, leading to highway 1 and ending in the city center.