Honda Vietnam organizes the Ceremony of helmet donation in 2023
Hanoi, 25th September 2023 – Honda Vietnam (HVN) in collaboration with the National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC) and the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) organized the Ceremony of helmet donation to the First grade pupils nationwide in 2023.
Collaborating with the Vietnamese Government to realize the target of "ZERO traffic fatality" by 2045 and Honda Global target of "ZERO traffic collision fatalities involving Honda motorcycles and automobiles" by 2050, Honda Vietnam (HVN) has decided to donate 2 million helmets to the First graders nationwide in the school year 2023 – 2024.
This meaningful program also comes from the awareness of the key role of wearing standard helmets in protecting traffic users. Especially for First graders – an important age to form thinking, giving them the habit of always wearing standard helmets when sitting on the back of motorcycles is extremely necessary. The lovely and qualified helmets given to pupils in the first days of entering first grade will be a memorable moment in the first back-to-school season, becoming a premise for the habit of always wearing standard helmets when participating in traffic.
The decision of donating 2 million helmets in the school year 2023 – 2024 is aimed at:
- Establishing the habit of wearing helmets among Vietnamese motorcycle users, thereby achieving up to a 100% ratio of wearing qualified helmets
- Enlightening pupils and parents for traffic safety and Improving awareness through publicity activities
This meaningful and practical activity is a continuity of “The helmet donation to the First graders” implemented nationwide by Honda Vietnam, the National Traffic Safety Committee and the Ministry of Education and Training from 2018 to 2020. After an interruption due to Covid-19, in the school year 2022 – 2023, HVN has restarted “The helmet donation to the First & Second graders in combination with traffic safety training for kids & parents” in three big cities: Hanoi, Can Tho and Ho Chi Minh City. Along with the decision to donate 2 million helmets to the First graders nationwide this year, the total number of helmets have donated by HVN reached nearly 8.6 million.
In the school year 2023 – 2024, the Ceremony of the helmet donation to the First-grade pupils nationwide was held at Phu Do Primary School, Hanoi. The ceremony was attended by Mr./Mrs. ... - National Traffic Safety Committee, Mr. / Mrs. ... - Ministry of Education and Training, Mr./Mrs. ... - Ministry of Transport, Mr./Mrs. ... - Railway and Road Traffic Police Department and Mr. Koji Sugita - General Director of Honda Vietnam. At the ceremony, the parties agreed and signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the following main contents:
- 100% of the First graders nationwide receive HVN’s qualified helmets
- Maximize training Traffic safety knowledge and skills for improving accident risk awareness & prediction to pupils and their parents
Through the events, HVN hopes that about 2 million pupils and 200,000 parents will be trained Traffic safety knowledge and skills.
HVN believes that Helmet donations to the First graders in combination with traffic safety training for pupils and their parents will contribute to realize the Vietnamese Government target of "ZERO traffic fatality" by 2045, as well as Honda's global target of "ZERO traffic collision fatalities involving Honda motorcycles and automobiles" by 2050.