Honda Vietnam will present more than 176,000 helmets to first graders in Hanoi during the 2019-2020 academic year (Photo: thanglong.chinhphu.vn)Hanoi (VNA) – Honda Vietnam will presentmore than 176,000 helmets to first graders in Hanoi during the 2019-2020academic year, the company’s representative said when presenting helmets tostudents at the Tran Quoc Toan primary school in Hanoi on September 5.
The company gave 338 helmets to first graders at TranQuoc Toan school at the first event of a programme on delivering helmets tochildren in Hanoi in 2019.
The programme aims to raise the awareness andobservance of rules on wearing helmets when riding motorbikes and electric bicyclesamong the public in general and children in particular.
According to the city’s traffic safety committee,Hanoi aims to raise the proportion of children wearing standard helmets whentravelling on the road to 80 percent in 2020.
Statistics showed that only 35-40 percent ofchildren aged from six and above wear helmets, while the ratio among adults ismore than 90 percent. Many parents have not made their children wear helmets orhave given them unsafe helmets.
A similar programme waslaunched in June this year on the national scale, under which over 1.93million standard helmets will be presented to first grade students in the2019-2020 academic year.
In the 2018-2019 school year, Honda Vietnam delivered nearly2 million standard helmets to first graders nationwide, contributing toincreasing helmet wearing among 6-year-old children in Vietnam.—VNA
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