High-quality helmet donations and road-safety education are part of the programme.
The AIP Foundation organised a kick-off ceremony in the province onMarch 17. At the ceremony, 2,987 students and teachers at five primaryschools in the province were gifted helmets.
Mirjam Sidik, CEO ofAIP Foundation, said: "We have seen improved road-safety knowledge andbehaviour among students, resulting in lives saved from the use ofhelmets."
This year, the programme aims to present helmets toaround 9,100 students and teachers at 44 schools in four provinces of HaTinh, Quang Binh, Quang Nam and Dong Nai.
Theselected schools are located in four of 15 major provinces implementingthe National Child Helmet Action Plan, which aims to reach 80 percentchild helmet-wearing rates by 2016, Sidik said.
Theprogramme is carried out under cooperation with the National TrafficSafety Committee and the Ministry of Education and Training withsponsorship of Johnson & Johnson.-VNA