Riders for Health – more than just a motorcycle

September 2, 2013
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Riders for Health – more than just a motorcycle

Riders for Health - more than just a motorcycle

a world in which health care reaches everyone, everywhere.

Riders for Health’s mission is simple: to make the ‘last mile’ the most important mile in health care delivery: creating, showing and sharing the solutions for achieving truly equitable health care. Riders for Health is an international social enterprise that manages and maintains vehicles for health-focused partners in sub-Saharan Africa. Their expertise in transport management enables health workers to deliver vital health care to rural communities on a reliable and cost-effective basis.

Riders for Health manages motorcycles, ambulances and other four-wheel vehicles used in the delivery of health care in seven countries across Africa. 

Why is it important?

The majority of the population of sub-Saharan Africa live in rural areas where the best roads are little more than dirt tracks. Public transport is infrequent and delivering health care on foot or by bicycle between sparse villages is an exhausting and ineffective task. 

Put simply, without reliable transport the millions of pounds that is invested in vaccines, drugs, bed-nets, condoms and trained health professionals every year will be wasted because they will fail to get to where they are needed on time.

Riders for Health works with ministries of health, international and African non-governmental organisations (NGOs), private-sector organisations, local community-based organisations and religious groups, to improve access to health care for 12 million people. As a social enterprise, they charge its partners a not-for-profit fee to ensure the sustainability of its programmes. 

Find out more: http://www.riders.org/

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