On Friday evening (July 3), the National Traffic Safety Committee in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training and Honda Vietnam Company launched the “Giu tron uoc mo” (Keeping dreams) to provide helmets for first grade students nationwide in the school year 2020-2021. Politburo member and Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh, who is also the chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee, attended the event.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh and delegates present helmets to first grade students at the launch ceremony of the "Keeping dreams" programme on July 3.

The helmet presentation event has been held since the 2018-2019 school year. After two years, nearly four million helmets meeting national technical standards have been gifted by Honda Vietnam to first grade pupils at all elementary schools nationwide.

Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy PM Binh highly praised the program's results which have contributed to increasing the helmet-wearing rate among Vietnamese children aged 6-15 from 35% in 2017 to 70% by the end of 2019, while the rate of wearing helmets among high school students is 90%.

He also asked the relevant agencies to organise a walking event calling for helmet-wearing on the first Sunday of September, as well as a helmet presenting event and traffic safety month for students at the start of the new school year 2020-2021, contributing to realising the goal of raising the helmet-wearing rate among children to 80% by 2020.

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Source: NDO