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It was a wet morning during Cambodia’s rainy season in 2018 when garment worker Srey Meak and one of her colleagues were riding a motorcycle to work in Kampong Cham Province. Suddenly, a car from the opposite direction hit their vehicle, pinning them to the ground. Srey Meak was hospitalized for two weeks with serious leg injuries.
“My head hit the car in the crash. Luckily, I wore a helmet, so there was no serious injury to my head,” she said.
Fortunately, Srey Meak’s factory had been encouraging workers to purchase helmets as of one of the measures promoted by the Transportation Working Group (TWG), a task force of brands and development partners, facilitated by Better Factories Cambodia (BFC), looking to improve road safety across the country.
BFC, brands and partners — including Road Safety Experts AIP Foundation, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and the Solidarity Center — first established the TWG in 2016 with the vision that “all garment and footwear workers travel safely to and from work, all the time.”
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