At the event (Photo: VNA) Thai Nguyen (VNA) – The Asia Injury PreventionFoundation (AIP) and the Traffic Safety Committee of the northern Thai Nguyenprovince held a ceremony on November 25 to launch a “Helmet for Children”project for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Carried out by the AIP and the Johnson & JohnsonFoundation, the project aims to present helmets to children in Thai Nguyen andraise awareness of laws on traffic safety and order among students, teachersand parents.
Thai Nguyen has over 120,000 pupils at primary level. Duringthe 2018-2019 school year, about 4,000 helmets were handed over to students ateight primary schools, contributing to raising the rate of helmet-wearing primarystudents to over 90 percent from 15-20 percent.
During the 2020-2021 academic year, the project will grantmore than 1,100 helmets to students at Giang Tien, Yen Do 1 and Yen Ninh primaryschools in Phu Luong district.
On the occasion, students were also instructed how to wearhelmets properly and joined extracurricular activities related to trafficsafety theme./.
Carried out by the AIP and the Johnson & JohnsonFoundation, the project aims to present helmets to children in Thai Nguyen andraise awareness of laws on traffic safety and order among students, teachersand parents.
Thai Nguyen has over 120,000 pupils at primary level. Duringthe 2018-2019 school year, about 4,000 helmets were handed over to students ateight primary schools, contributing to raising the rate of helmet-wearing primarystudents to over 90 percent from 15-20 percent.
During the 2020-2021 academic year, the project will grantmore than 1,100 helmets to students at Giang Tien, Yen Do 1 and Yen Ninh primaryschools in Phu Luong district.
On the occasion, students were also instructed how to wearhelmets properly and joined extracurricular activities related to trafficsafety theme./.
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