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Michelle Yeoh joins a flashmob to promote road safety awareness in Vietnam
Michelle Yeoh joins a flashmob to promote road safety awareness in Vietnam
12/4/17
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Hollywood
star Michelle Yeoh joined over 1,500 Vietnamese students in a flashmob dance
at the community event, "Safe Steps – Road Safety", in Vietnam at
the Youth Cultural House in Ho Chi Minh City on April 9.
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Michelle Yeoh,
currently the Global Road Safety Ambassador for the UN Decade for Road Safety
2011-2020, and spokesperson for the new FIA High Level Panel for Road Safety,
arrived in Vietnam Sunday to launch the pan-Asian public service initiative
on promoting public awareness on road safety.
She joined
representatives from local authorities, two Vietnamese Safe Step Ambassadors,
MC Nguyen Khang and supermodel Ha Anh, and thousands of university students
in various activities under the campaign in Vietnam.
Michelle Yeoh attracted
a lot of fans at the event because of her friendliness. Nguyen Khang said
that working with her was very interesting as she was always friendly and
enthusiastic in all her activities to convey her great inspiration for the
event. The programme also featured former Vietnamese Tourism Ambassador, Ly
Nha Ky.
Speaking at the event,
the 55-year-old actress said that the widespread dissemination and education
of basic knowledge on traffic safety and raising community awareness was a
necessity, contributing to reducing the number of traffic accidents and
saving lives.
The coordination among
private enterprises, governments, NGOs and communities is always key to
developing traffic safety initiatives that save lives of many people. Safe
Steps is a typical example of multilateral cooperation that has played an
important part in the successful implementation of the UN’s sustainable
development goals, she stressed.
Also at the event, Dr
Khuat Viet Hung, Vice-Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee, said
that the Party and State of Vietnam pledged to implement synchronous
solutions to ensure road safety, while highly appreciating cooperation and
contribution of local and foreign individuals and organisations for the
purpose of traffic safety for Vietnamese people.
He believes that
activities of Safe Steps programme, which will be implemented in Ho Chi Minh
City and Hanoi, would contribute to the implementation of the 2017 Traffic
Safety Year’s theme of "Building a Transport Culture for Youth"
across the nation.
As the first community
project launched in Asia, Safe Steps aims to raise awareness on the causes of
traffic accidents, provide educational information about such causes and
offer posters and information guides for community activities and related
partners during the project implementation to convey messages on road safety,
thus encouraging the youth to practise traffic safety measures.
Following are photos
that captured Safe Steps programme activities, featuring Global Road Safety
Ambassador, Michelle Yeoh, in Vietnam:
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More than 21 600 people are killed in road traffic crashes in Viet Nam every year. Motorcyclists account for the highest proportion of these fatalities.
The overall goal of the road safety project in Viet Nam is to help the Government of Viet Nam prevent death and serious injuries on its roads by preventing drink–driving and promoting quality helmets for motorcycle drivers and passengers.
Motorcycle helmet-wearing rates have remained above 90% since the introduction of the motorcycle helmet law in 2008.
Since 2007, with the technical support of WHO, the Government of Viet Nam has focused on continuously improving its laws and regulations to promote helmet wearing for motorcyclists and prevent drink–driving.
Media reporting on road safety is an important mechanism for raising awareness among the general public and promoting specific policy changes by policy-makers.
These traumatic events cause immeasurable suffering and grief, and at times economic hardship for families and friends. In addition, they cost societies precious resources, diverting these from other pressing health and development challenges.
The project aims at fostering public awareness of traffic safety and culture, environmental protection, and public manners for a better image of Vietnam.
This is a further attempt to call on people to strictly comply with traffic laws so as to minimize the number of accidents and fatalities.
We sometimes need to give ourselves slaps on the face.
Moreover, in developing countries such as Vietnam, the mortality rate from road traffic accidents is rather high in comparison with other Southeast Asian countries.
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