About Protec

AIP Foundation was founded by Mr. Greig Craft in 1999. In 2000, former President of the US, Bill Clinton, launched project Helmet for Kids, which was the first school based program of AIP Foundation. At that time, helmets deployed in the program were all imported from China. It dawned on Mr. Greig Craft of the huge demands for quality and financially viable helmets in Vietnam. As a result, he raised fund to found the first social enterprise specialized in helmets in Vietnam.

During the onset of the project, Mr. Greig and his collaborators closely cooperated with American experts of helmets and traffic safety. In addition, they were also enrolled in a training course in Hong Kong to take an insight in the operation of a helmet factory. Protec Company was granted operation license in August 2001, and released the first helmet in 2002. In the first phase of the company, our factory could only produce 5,000 helmets a year. In 2006, sales of Protec rocketed in the awake of the Vietnamese government introducing the mandatory law on helmet use, which applied to all motorbike users – AIP Foundation played an instrumental role in pushing the government to pass the law. In 2007, when the mandatory helmet law officially came into effect, both production and sales of Protec recorded stable growth.